Gatsby Workshop

This workshop covers the fundamentals of developing fast, accessible sites with Gatsby, a React framework, and dive deep into the building blocks you’ll need to build your own custom Gatsby sites.

After completing a mix of lectures and exercises you’ll be able to build a Gatsby site from the ground up and deploy it live. In particular, you’ll learn the ins and outs of creating Gatsby sites, from selecting a starter or theme, using GraphQL to generate the data layer, making Markdown content interactive with MDX, deploying your site, and more!

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Prerequisites

• This workshop is for JavaScript developers who haven't had extensive experience with Gatsby and want a deeper understanding of Gatsby.

System Requirements

• git v2 or greater
• NodeJS v12 or greater
• npm v6 or greater

All of these must be available in your PATH. To verify things are set up properly, you can run this:

git --version
node --version
npm --version

If you have trouble with any of these, learn more about the PATH environment variable and how to fix it here for windows or mac/linux.

Setup

After you've made sure to have the correct things (and versions) installed, you should be able to just run a few commands to get set up:

git clone https://github.com/m0nica/gatsby-workshop.git
cd site
npm install

or

git clone https://github.com/m0nica/gatsby-workshop.git
cd site
yarn

Running the app

To get the app up and running (and really see if it worked), run:

cd site
npm run start

or

cd site
yarn start

This should start up the site locally in your browser at http://localhost:8000/. For reference the production deployment of the inital site looks like: https://deploy-preview-4--gatsbyjsdemo.netlify.app/ and the production deploymeny of the final site looks like: https://deploy-preview-14--gatsbyjsdemo.netlify.app/ (subject to change).

Exercises

The exercises each have a branch associated with them. You can find the exercises under site/INSTRUCTIONS/ in files labelled like 01_instructions.md. To get the latest working code for an exercise check out the exercise solution branch.

• 00 • Running a Gatsby Application Locally
• 01 • Customize Gatsby Site Information
• 02 • Make Footer Data Dynamic
• 03 • Create a new page in Gatsby
• 04 • Create a new navigation link
• 05 • Add site-wide banner
• 06 • Adding Speaker/Talk Data Type
• 07 • Render Speaker/Talk Data Type
• 08 • Programmatically Generate Speaker Pages
• 09 • Link to Speaker Pages
• 10 • Add Talk Descriptions and Render on Speaker Pages
• 11 • Add Page Listing All Speakers

Workflow

• Checkout the main branch
• Read through the instructions in site/INSTRUCTIONS and complete one set of instructions at a time
• Start exercise
• Go through every mentioned file and follow the instructions
• We all come back together
• I go through the solution and answer questions
• Move on to the next exercise.
• Repeat.

View Slides

• Go to www.monica.dev/gatsbyworkshop
• The slides can be run locally from this repo by doing the following:
• cd slides
• npm install
• npm run dev
• View slides locally at: http://localhost:3000/