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Elevating React Web Development with Gatsby

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
12
Part 3: Advanced Concepts

Creating theme plugins

As we have discovered, theme plugins are all about adding visual elements to our Gatsby site. Theme plugins are unique in that they have to contain a gatsby-config.js file. To better understand theme plugins, let's look at the most minimal of examples. Let's use a plugin to add a simple sample page to our site:

  1. Create a new folder called gatsby-theme-sample-page in your plugins folder.
  2. Open a terminal in the gatsby-theme-sample-page folder and run the following command:
    npm init -y
  3. Create an src folder in /gatsby-theme-sample-page.
  4. Create a pages folder in your src folder.
  5. Create a sample.js file inside your new pages folder and add the following code:
    import React from "react";
    const Sample = () => {
      return (
        <div>
          <h1>Sample page</h1>
        </div>
      );
    };
    export default Sample;

    This page is very basic and just renders a heading on the page.

  6. Navigate to your gatsby-config.js file...

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