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Elevating React Web Development with Gatsby

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Elevating React Web Development with Gatsby

Elevating React Web Development with Gatsby

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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
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Part 2: Going Live
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Part 3: Advanced Concepts

Understanding build types

Gatsby version 4 introduced the ability for your website to be built in two different ways:

  • As a static build: This creates all your pages at build time using Node.js. The resulting files are all static HTML, JavaScript, and CSS, which can be served entirely statically.
  • As a hybrid build: This is a mixture of a static build combined with pages that are server-side rendered or have been created via deferred static generation.

When running gatsby build, Gatsby will inspect your site's content, and if possible, create a static build. However, if your site contains pages that are server-side rendered or have been created via deferred static generation, it will create a build that requires server-side code that runs on a Node.js server or via serverless functions. Builds of both types can be tested locally using the gatsby serve command.

Before deploying your build, it's worth ensuring that everything is working as it should locally...

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