Sourcing images from CMS
It is not always practical to store images within your repository. You may want someone other than yourself to be able to update or add images to your site without you needing to change the code. In these cases, serving images via CMS is preferable. It's still important that we use the Gatsby image plugin as we want our images to be performant, regardless of the source. To understand how we would integrate images via CMS, let's use an example. Let's add a profile image to our about page using gatsby-plugin-image and a CMS.
Important Note
Due to the vast number of headless CMSes in the market, we will continue to focus on the two mentioned in the Sourcing data from a Headless CMS section of Chapter 3, Sourcing and Querying Data (from Anywhere!): GraphCMS and Prismic.
Both of the following sections will assume you have already installed the CMS's dependencies and integrated the CMS via your gatsby-config.js file. Please only implement...