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Elevating React Web Development with Gatsby

You're reading from   Elevating React Web Development with Gatsby Practical guide to building performant, accessible, and interactive web apps with React and Gatsby.js 4

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800209091
Length 314 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Samuel Larsen-Disney Samuel Larsen-Disney
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Getting Started
2. Chapter 1: An Overview of Gatsby.js for the Uninitiated FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Styling Choices and Creating Reusable Layouts 4. Chapter 3: Sourcing and Querying Data (from Anywhere!) 5. Chapter 4: Creating Reusable Templates 6. Chapter 5: Working with Images 7. Part 2: Going Live
8. Chapter 6: Improving Your Site's Search Engine Optimization 9. Chapter 7: Testing and Auditing Your Site 10. Chapter 8: Web Analytics and Performance Monitoring 11. Chapter 9: Deployment and Hosting 12. Part 3: Advanced Concepts
13. Chapter 10: Creating Gatsby Plugins 14. Chapter 11: Creating Authenticated Experiences 15. Chapter 12: Using Real-Time Data 16. Chapter 13: Internationalization and Localization 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Learning about XML sitemaps

A sitemap is a special file that provides information about the web pages and files on your site, as well as their relationships. Creating this file allows web crawlers to gather information about your site without having to crawl your site manually. It helps us highlight to search engines which pages we specifically want them to look at. Let's create a sitemap for our site:

  1. Install the gatsby-plugin-sitemap dependency:
    npm install gatsby-plugin-sitemap
  2. Update your gatsby-config.js file:
    module.exports = {
      siteMetadata: {
        siteUrl: `https://your.website.com`,
      },
      plugins: [
        `gatsby-plugin-sitemap`,
      // other plugins
      ]
    }

    By including this plugin, Gatsby will automatically create a sitemap when building the site. It's important to remember that this plugin only generates output when running in production. When you're using gatsby develop, you will not see your sitemap file being created. Only when the gatsby build command...

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