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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

Auditing core web vitals

Web vitals (https://web.dev/vitals) are an initiative by Google to provide unified guidance for quality signals that are essential to delivering a great user experience on the web. These directly tie into the signals discussed in Chapter 6, Improving Your Site's Search Engine Optimization.

The core web vitals are a small group of Google's web vitals that focus on three pillars – how fast the page loads, how soon you can interact with the page, and how stable the page is while it is loading and while the user is interacting with it. These three pillars are encompassed in the following three metrics:

  • Largest Contentful Paint: A representation of load time. It is the measure of the time the browser takes to make the majority of a page's content visible from the moment you start navigating to it. This is the moment at which a user perceives the site to have finished loading.
  • First Input Delay: Measures the response time to...