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Elevating React Web Development with Gatsby

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Elevating React Web Development with Gatsby

Overview of this book

Gatsby is a powerful React static site generator that enables you to create lightning-fast web experiences. With the latest version of Gatsby, you can combine your static content with server-side rendered and deferred static content to create a fully rounded application. Elevating React Web Development with Gatsby provides a comprehensive introduction for anyone new to GatsbyJS and will help you get up to speed in no time. Complete with hands-on tutorials and projects, this easy-to-follow guide starts by teaching you the core concepts of GatsbyJS. You'll then discover how to build performant, accessible, and scalable websites with the GatsbyJS framework. Once you've worked through the practical projects in the book, you'll be able to build anything from a personal website to large-scale applications with authentication and make your site rise through those SEO rankings. By the end of this Gatsby development book, you'll be well-versed in every aspect of the tool's performance and accessibility and have learned how to build client websites that your users will love.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Part 1: Getting Started
7
Part 2: Going Live
12
Part 3: Advanced Concepts

Styling with Sass

In this section, we will learn how to implement Sass styling in our Gatsby project:

  1. To start using Sass, we will need to install it along with a few other dependencies. Open a terminal at the root folder of your project and run the following:
    npm install sass gatsby-plugin-sass

    Here, we are installing the core Sass dependency as well as the Gatsby plugin that integrates it.

  2. Modify your gatsby-config.js file with the following:
    module.exports = {
      plugins: [
        'gatsby-plugin-sass'
      ],
    };

    Here, we are updating our Gatsby configuration to let Gatsby know to make use of the gatsby-plugin-sass plugin. Now, create a styles folder inside your src directory.

  3. Create a global.scss file in your styles folder and add the following:
    html {
      background-color: #f9fafb;
      font-family: -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto,
        Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif,
        "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI
        Symbol&quot...