Gatsby’s first beta release

We shipped today Gatsby's first beta for 1.0! Gatsby is a modern blazing-fast static site generator for React.js.

Ten months and one day ago I announced I was now working full-time on Gatsby followed a month later by posting an issue kickstarting the rewrite of Gatsby for a 1.0 release

Since then, 40 contributors have pushed 723 commits contributing to 23 alpha releases before today's first beta release. It's been a really enjoyable experience watching Gatsby v1 take form and helping shape that and the growing community around it.

What's part of v1

From Gatsby's initial release just over two years ago, Gatsby has let you build static websites using React.js components as well as markdown, JSON, and YAML.

Building on this strong foundation, v1 adds:

New plugin architecture (to date 45+ plugins have been written)
New data layer which lets you integrate data from both remote (CMSs, APIs, etc.) and local sources
Progressive web app features such as automatic code and data splitting (by route), prefetching, and service worker and offline-first support

Special thanks to

Getting to this point wouldn't have happened without the help of many individuals and companies.

Individuals

Companies who sponsored time working on Gatsby v1

Our open source hosting/testing infrastructure providers

It'd be impossible to write open source code without the generous support of these infrastructure providers.

Netlify Awesome static site continuous delivery & hosting
Travis CI Test runner in the cloud
Appveyor Windows test runner in the cloud

Changelog since 1.0.0-alpha.20

Added

Allow for gatsby-remark-smartypants options #1166 @mitchejj
New design (for gatsbyjs.org) + new home page #1170 @kyleamathews
Add ability to locally define plugins #1126 @0x80
Add rough draft for docs for creating source plugins #1159 @kyleamathews
Optimizations around prefetching page resources #1133 @kyleamathews
Redux example site #1081 @scottyeck
Sitemap Generator Plugin #1115 @nicholaswyoung
Add documentation to gatsby-remark-prism @kyleamathews

Changed

Move all filter operators for connections under a top-level "filter" field #1177 @kyleamathews
Change linkPrefix to pathPrefix and add an example site #1155 @kyleamathews
Make the plugin options for remark plugins the second argument (like everywhere else) #1167 @kyleamathews
Start using next instead of canary in example sites for package versions @kyleamathews

Fixed

Fix GraphQL compiler on TypeScript #949 @fabien0102
Replace react.createClass with ES6 classes in examples html.js, add PropTypes #1169 @abachuk
Fix windows build pull #1158 @kyleamathews
Use custom delimiter when flattening example values for enum fields so easy to convert back @kyleamathews
gatsby-remark-responsive-image: use span instead of div #1151 @rstacruz
Add check that we can actually find a linked image file node @kyleamathews
Ignore SVGs in gatsby-remark-responsive-image #1157 @fk
Replace using levelup for caching with lowdb to avoid native dependency #1142 @kyleamathews
Fix Appveyor bug regarding build all examples on release #1118 @jbolda

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