Jumpstart Jamstack Development

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:

"A free and open source framework based on React that helps developers build blazing fast websites and apps."

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 ...