As mentioned in the book’s introduction, familiarity with Gatsby is assumed. But, just in case, this chapter will give a quick overview of the basic concepts in Gatsby.
What is Gatsby?
Gatsby (https://gatsbyjs.org) is a static site generator for React. Pages are created using React components, then are run through a build process which produces static HTML files and associated assets. These assets can then be deployed to a hosting service like Netlify. Despite the name, a site generated by a static site generator can have dynamic content on the client side. Pages can still contain interactive ...