Gatsby
with
Contentful
Balram Singh
@erbalramsingh
in/balramsingh
Fast in every way that matters
@erbalramsingh
How Gatsby works
Gatsby is a free and open source framework based on React that helps developers build blazing fast websites and apps
How Gatsby works
@erbalramsingh
WordPress
Pros
- Easy to manage content
- Pre-build Plugins
- Pre-build Themes
- Easy to Upgrade
- The fastest way to deliver an E2E product
- Strong community
- 18 Million websites
Cons
- Not Scalable
- Not high Performance
- Not suitable for heavy websites eg E-commerce
- Not easy to use with modern frontend stack
Gatsby
Pros
- Modern web tech without headache
- Bring your own data
- Scale to the entire Internet
- Future proof your website
- Static Progressive webapps
- Speed past the competition
- Strong community (31150 Github stars)
- Host at scale of Pennys
- Start the site in develop mode
- Get Gatsby setup in single command
Create Gatsby Website in 5 minutes
# install the Gatsby CLI globally
npm install -g gatsby-cli
# create a new Gatsby site using the default starter
gatsby new my-blazing-fast-site# go to project folder
cd my-blazing-fast-site/
# run the app to develop mode
gatsby develophttp://localhost:8000- Hit URL
- You get fast, real fast
- Free your developers
- One hub replaces many
- Headless gets smarter
Contentful
Demo
Thank You
Balram Singh
@erbalramsingh
in/balramsingh