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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
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Part 3: Advanced Concepts

Sourcing data from a Headless CMS

A Headless CMS is a CMS that purely focuses on the content itself and does not care about how it's presented. Traditional CMSes store content in a database and then use a series of HTML templates to control how content gets presented to viewers. In Headless CMSes, however, instead of returning HTML, we return structured data via an API.

Content creators can still add and edit data via a user interface, but the frontend is stored completely separately. This is perfect for when your content creators are not developers, or when you're out and about and want to write a post on your phone without having to spin up your laptop.

With Gatsby's vast plugin ecosystem, your site can support many different Headless CMSes with very little effort. You could write a book on how to implement every one of them into your project, so, instead, let's focus on two – GraphCMS and Prismic.

Important Note

Only implement one of the Headless...

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