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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

Chapter 3: Sourcing and Querying Data (from Anywhere!)

In this chapter, you will learn about Gatsby's data layer. You will start by understanding what we mean by data in the context of Gatsby before learning the basics of GraphQL. Once you have this understanding, you will learn how to source and query data from local files. We will then look at sourcing data from a couple of Headless CMSes.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Data in Gatsby
  • Introducing GraphQL
  • Sourcing and querying data from local files
  • Sourcing and querying data from a Headless CMS