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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

Summary

In this chapter, you have learned how you can style a Gatsby site in a multitude of ways. This should aid you in making an informed choice about what way you will style your application going forward. We have seen how to style your Gatsby site using CSS, Sass, Tailwind.css, and Styled Components. You should have decided on one of these and implemented them. In future chapters, I will use Tailwind.css to style the application, but this is a personal preference. You should use whatever you feel is best for your site and your existing knowledge.

We also started creating the first reusable components that will make up the backbone of our site. While our layout component may seem primitive right now, we will be integrating it with content in the next chapter and adding imagery to bring it to life even further in Chapter 5, Working with Images.

Before continuing to the next chapter, I encourage you to spend time building on the styles outlined here until you have your existing...