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How-to Guides

Practical step-by-step guides to help you achieve a specific goal. Most useful when you're trying to get something done.

Local Development

5 articles

Get your local environment set up: start new projects, use Gatsby's CLI and development server, customize your JavaScript setup, and debug common errors.

  • Starters
  • Environment variables
  • Debug development errors
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Routing

2 articles

Create both unique and template-based pages. Create a shared page layout to include elements like headers and footers. Compose content in JSX, markdown, and in a CMS.

Styling

3 articles

Use your preferred styling system(s) with Gatsby: standard CSS, preprocessors like Sass, CSS-in-JS solutions like Emotion, or emerging approaches like Tailwind

Images and Media

3 articles

Pull images, video, GIF, and other media into your site. Use gatsby-image to optimize page performance and user experience.

Plugins and Themes

3 articles

Access Gatsby's rich ecosystem of drop-in functionality, from CMS integrations to image optimizations.

Sourcing Data

2 articles

Pull content and data from wherever it lives -- a CMS, the filesystem, a spreadsheet, a database -- into Gatsby using source plugins (integrations) and make it available for your site's pages and components.

Querying Data

4 articles

Once data is pulled into Gatsby, your pages and components specify what data they access through GraphQL queries.

Common Features

8 articles

From e-commerce and search to SEO and A/B testing, add in the rich functionality and interaction your users want and the control and optimizations that business stakeholders need.

Rendering Options

2 articles

Use rendering options to tell Gatsby when to build specific pages for your site. Choose between Static Site Generation, Deferred Static Generation, or Server-Side Rendering.

Testing

3 articles

Add unit and end-to-end tests for your components and pages. Use modern tooling like Jest and Cypress with Gatsby and set up a CI/CD pipeline.

Performance and Scaling

4 articles

Gatsby provides a large number of tools to make your performance fast out of the box.

Preview & Hosting

1 article

Share and review new code and content with your team. Set up hosting and a deployment pipeline that lets you rapidly push changes to the world.

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