David Darnes
Developer Advocate at zeroheight. Previously: Nordhealth, Ghost, Stackbit. Clients: Google, Buffer and Netlify. he/him
What's so great about the Gatsby?
What's Gatsby Again?
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Speed
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Stack
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Sources
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Security
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Servers
The 5 Esses:
How convenient that they all start with an "S"…
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Fast by default
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Single page application
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Progressive application
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Lean output code bundle
Speed: What makes it fast?
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Built on top of React
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A standardised set of plugins
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A node application (JavaScript on the front and the backend)
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Whatever medley of npm packages you desire
Stack: What's it made of?
🔌
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Static files (JS / Markdown / JSON etc)
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Plugins to pull in content
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APIs like WordPress, Medium, RSS, Twitter etc
Sources: Where's the content?
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etc…
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Simplified stack
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Less to hack
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Front-end is contained, decoupled from its APIs
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Even stronger without WordPress in the equation
Security: Can it be hacked?
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It can be hosted anywhere
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We can utilise more modern platforms
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Netlify, Surge, Now.sh
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Optimised CDN caching
Servers: Where can it go?
Demo time…
Let's take a look
Further reading:
Examples in the wild:
Thanks for your time!
What's so great about the Gatsby?
By David Darnes
What's so great about the Gatsby?
Gatsby JS is a static site generator for people who have a taste for JavaScript. There are many site generators that sit along side Gatsby, however their output is a bit more basic…
