Working with Gatsby Training Course

Course Summary

The Working with Gatsby training course is designed to demonstrate a new approach to the delivery of web-based solutions moving from a single monolithic CMS toward a content mesh with an infrastructure layer to decouple websites.

The course begins with an introduction to Gatsby including installation, creating a project with Gatsby CLI creating static pages, and layouts and styling. Next, it describes Gatsby architecture, querying data with GraphQL, and working with images and markdowns. The course concludes with examining how to move to production and how to improve Progressive Web App (PWA) support.

Prerequisites: Attendees must have JavaScript development experience. Experience using React is helpful but not required.

Purpose

Learn to deliver web-based solutions using Gatsby.

Audience

Developers and developer teams looking to incorporate Gatsby into their toolkit.

Role

Software Developer - Web Developer

Skill Level

Introduction

Style

Learning Spikes - Workshops

Duration

2 Days

Related Technologies

React

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Productivity Objectives:

Create a highly performant web app using Gatsby, React and GraphQL
Deliver web-based solutions using a "content mesh"
Source and render data from a variety of data sources
Install and configure plugins to utilize functionality required
Demonstrate Gatsby's Architecture and Boot Process

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Project-focused demos and labs using your tool stack and environment, not some canned "training room" lab.
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What You'll Learn

In the Working with Gatsby training course, you'll learn:

Introducing Gatsby
- What and Why
- The JAM Stack
- Headless CMSes
- Gatsby’s value proposition
- The Gatsby Ecosystem
Getting Started
- Install Gatsby
- Create a project with Gatsby CLI
- Utilize a starter
Creating Static Pages
- Create a page
- Use Static Assets
- Create components using React
Layouts and Styling
- Add Global CSS styles
- Utilize CSS modules
- Use a CSS-in-JS library
- Link between pages using <Link>
- Add a layout component
Gatsby Architecture
- Data sources, nodes and GraphQL
- Source plugins and transformer plugins
- Understand Gatsby’s build process
Querying Data with GraphQL
- Understand GraphQL
- Make GraphQL queries from pages
- Render the data received
- Deal with errors and delays
- Static queries vs page queries
- Issue queries from components using <StaticQuery>
- Use the useStaticQuery ook
Querying Further Data Sources
- Query data from the Filesystem
- Understand the nodes Namespace and storage model
- Query image data
- Connect to a Headless CMS
Working with Images
- Responsive design considerations for images
- Bandwidth and load time considerations
- Query for images using GraphQL
- Perform image transformations
- Image rendering
Working with Markdown
- Build a blog
- Transform markdown to HTML
- Introduce MDX
- Use MDX
Programmatically Creating Pages
- Gatsby’s bootstrap phase
- Understand gatsby-node and Gatsby’s APIs
- Create “Slugs” for generated pages
- Generate the pages
Paginating Through Lists
- Pagination in GraphQL
- Query a list
- Render a paginated list
Moving to Production
- Create a production build
- Serve the production build
- Host the site
- Deploy to Netlify
Improving Progressive Web App (PWA) Support
- Explain PWAs
- Run a Lighthouse Audit
- Add a Manifest
- Add offline support with a service worker