GatsbyJS: A Powerful FE Tool for Decoupled Devs

Drupal Camp Asheville 2024 - July 12th-14th

Room
406
Start Time

Topics

User Interface & Design
User Experience & Accessibility
Site Building
Front End

Presenter(s)

Grayson Hicks
of
Mediacurrent

Want to learn about GatsbyJS?  What it is and how it can help you and your team?

Is it a framework?  Is it a static site generator?  GatsbyJS is an exciting way of thinking about building sites for the modern web.  

I will cover some of the main benefits that you or your team could experience with Gatsby:

  • Fast - It really, really is
  • Flexible- Bring your data from wherever.  Full Drupal, headless, REST APIs, local filesystem, Gatsby handles it all with GraphQL.
  • Fun - The most fun I've had building a site since I first learned React.

Look at the best (and a few not so best) use cases for having Gatsby:

  • Most public facing sites (vs. logged-in portion)
  • Brochure sites
  • Blogs 

I will touch on:

  • What Gatsby's GraphQL data layer is and how and why to embrace it
  • Gatsby's internal API for building a Gatsby starter to fit your team
  • Looking at Gatsby's plugin/source/transformer system for taking Gatsby from a a blog-generator to a site-generator