Chapter 7: Gatsby – An Introduction
Gatsby is the second part of the three-part Jamstack system used in this book. The definition that Gatsby gives for itself is as follows:
Since it is a free and open source framework, all of the code is easily examined and modifiable. Secondly, the websites and apps that Gatsby produces are blazing fast because the HTML pages that it creates are actual files, and not just produced through backend processes written in server-side languages.
First, we'll learn what React is, then, we will look at how Gatsby's basic project is structured, examining its file and folder structure.
The main topics that we will cover in this chapter are as follows:
- Gatsby, built on React
- Gatsby basic project structure
- The
gatsby developcommand
