Step Up
Your Portfolio Game
Use Gatsby.js ⚛️ 📄 🚀 !
Hi, I'm Joe Previte! 👋🏼
@jsjoeio
October 6th, 2018
Desert Code Camp
Who's here ❓
I want to get to know you a bit better...
Built something with React ❓
Angular, Vue, Ember ❓
My Background
freeCodeCamp alumni
Front End Engineer
egghead instructor
Today's Objectives
- Basic understanding of Gatsby
- How to build a site
Gatsby❓
THIS ⬇️
Started by @kylemathews
- v1.0.0 released July 2017
- v2.0.0 released September 2018
🤑 3.8 million in seed funding in 2018
gatsby.org vs. gatsby.com
Stats
- +26K ⭐️ on GitHub
- 1,156 contributors 👩🏼💻
- 39,650 weekly downloads 📥
Community
- Gatsby gazette
- Public Maintainers Meeting
- Pair-programming
⚛️ Gatsby Features 🔥
1. SSR 💁🏼♂️
out of the box 😏
2. PWA built-in ✅
3. Plugins Library 🗂
4. BYOD 👜
(bring your own data)
5. SPEED 🏃🏼♀️
"Once loaded, Gatsby prefetches resources for other pages so clicking around the site feels incredibly fast."
6. Latest tech 💻
- Webpack
- React 16
- GraphQL
- ES6
- modern CSS
DID I MENTION IT'S OPEN SOURCE 🕺🏼
Swag 👕 🧦
Why you should use it
Gentle intro to React 😊
Land that next job 😉
Starters on starters on starters 🤩
Your Thoughts? 🤔
Good fit for your portfolio? Why or why not?
Other use cases?
Anything else anyone wants to share?
