KBall and Jason geek out on the ins and outs of Gatsby. They talked through the fundamentals of working with Gatsby, the development process, and look into the future of Gatsby.

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Featuring

• Jason Lengstorf – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Notes and Links

About Gatsby

• Gatsby
• Using Headless Wordpress
• Sanity.io
• Gatsby Starter Library
• Using the Gatsby GraphQL Playground
• The Content Mesh
• Apollo Server

Fundamentals of working with Gatsby

• Creating and Modifying Pages in Gatsby
• Gatsby Remark Transformer
• Gatsby Config File

Gatsby Development Process

• Function Composition
• Introducing Gatsby Themes
• Progressive Disclosure of Complexity
• Yarn Workspaces
• Yarn Link
• Lerna

Future of Gatsby

• Build Performance Example
• Multi-core Builds
• Changelog Episode: The Great GatsbyJS
• Gatsby Preview
• Reach Router
• Hasura
• AWS Appsync

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!