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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

Search functionality

There are many different ways of integrating a site search. Many options are both hosted and local. For small projects, such as the site we are creating, it's often better to opt for a local index solution as the number of pages you are searching through is never that large. This also means that your site search will work in offline scenarios, which can be a real plus.

Elasticlunr (http://elasticlunr.com/) is a lightweight full-text search engine in JavaScript for browser and offline search. Using the elasticlunr Gatsby plugin, content is indexed and then made available via GraphQL to rehydrate in an elasticlunr index. Search queries can then be made against this index to retrieve page information.

Let's integrate a site search using elasticlunr:

  1. Install the elasticlunr Gatsby plugin:
    npm install @gatsby-contrib/gatsby-plugin-elasticlunr-
    search
  2. Add the elasticlunr plugin to your gatsby-config.js plugins array:
    {
          resolve: &apos...