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Tina Huynh
Tina Huynh

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Why Learn Gatsby

With a massive ecosystem of plugins, themes, and starters, Gatsby allows developers to develop and deploy websites in no time. Gatsby is a great way to learn React because it takes away a lot of the burden needed to get going with a React project. Gatsby utilizes web technologies and tools such as Git, JavaScript, and APIs allowing developers to use more time on application code rather than maintenance and optimization.

Gatsby is a React-based free and open-source framework that helps developers build blazing-fast websites and applications. It offers built-in performance, scalability and security. Developers love this static site generator for its great documentation and using modern tech stack that's future-proof.

Gatsby is a front end framework, meaning it needs a back end to build on top of. Therefore, Node. js is required for development, but not for deployment.This back end is usually a headless CMS, although Gatsby also lets you build from a database, API, or file system.

Gatsby can be used to build static sites that are Progressive Web Apps, follow the latest web standards, and are optimized to be highly performance. It makes use of the latest and popular technologies including ReactJS, Webpack, GraphQL, modern ES6+ JavaScript and CSS.

Gatsby is the open source, front end framework for React developers that need to build eCommerce sites, marketing sites, blogs, documentation, and any other type of websites.

Gatsby enables developers to build fast, secure, and powerful websites using a React-based framework and innovative data layer that makes integrating different content, APIs, and services into one web experience incredibly simple.

Benefits of using Gatsby for e-commerce sites include the following: Security inherent in static sites. Blazing fast performance when your pages are converted from React into static files. No server component required with Stripe's client-only Checkout.

Gatsby, which is a static site generator, is famous for blogs and documentation websites. But there is no wrong in build full blown React apps with it. In the case of a blog, Gatsby builds a page for every article at the build time and generates a directory which can be hosted directly.

The plugin creates RestApi nodes from REST API sources. You can source multiple REST APIs at once using this plugin to get data from multiple endpoints (from a single or multiple domains).

Gatsby is based on React.js which is a JavaScript library for building User Interfaces using components. It's relatively easy to learn, and if you're able to write solid JavaScript code, you're good to go.

Happy coding!

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