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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)
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Part 1: Getting Started
7
Part 2: Going Live
12
Part 3: Advanced Concepts

Overriding the gatsby-plugin-image defaults

To create a consistent look and feel, you may have included the same props with many instances of the two image components. Keeping these image components updated can be a monotonous task if your site is image-heavy. Instead, you could configure the defaults within the options of gatsby-plugin-sharp:

{
      resolve: 'gatsby-plugin-sharp',
      options: {
        defaults: {
          formats: ['auto', 'webp'],
          placeholder: 'blurred'
          quality: 70
          breakpoints: [300…]
          backgroundColor: 'transparent'
          tracedSVGOptions: {}
          blurredOptions: {}
          jpgOptions: {}
          pngOptions: {}
          webpOptions: {}
          avifOptions: {}
        }
      }
    },

Let's look at each of these options in detail:

  • formats: The file formats generated by the plugin.
  • placeholder: Overrides the style of the temporary...