Chapter 5: Working with Images

In this chapter, you will master the art of adding images to your Gatsby site. First, we will learn a little about the history of images on the web, before understanding why importing images is not as easy you might think. We will then move on to creating images that progressively load in and are performant.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Images on the web
• The StaticImage component
• The GatsbyImage component
• Overriding the gatsby-plugin-image defaults
• Sourcing images from CMS