Master Gatsby (Master Package)

Learn to build & style websites with Gatsby, React.js and friends.

Building modern websites is tough. Preloading, routing, compression, critical CSS, caching, scaling and bundlers all make for blazing fast websites, but extra development and tooling get in the way.

Gatsby is a React.js framework that does it all for you. This course will teach you how to build your websites and let Gatsby take care of all the Hard Stuff™.

What Will You Build?
Together we build a website for a local pizza joint called Slick’s Slices. The site includes everything you’d run into in building a website today and is meant to be a nice copy/paste reference for the sites you build.

Some of the topics we touch upon are

Multiple Data Types
Custom Fields
Progressive Images
Relational Data
Scoped CSS
Sourcing Data from a REST API
Sourcing Data from a CMS
Tags + Filtering
Reusable Components
Dynamically Generated pages
Pagination
Dynamic Order Form
Client side Fetching
Cross Page State Management
SEO + Meta Tags
Emailing of Order
Building
Deployment & Hosting

Who is this for?
This course is for anyone who wants to learn how to build modern websites. Whether you want to whip up a brand new personal website, or try out some new tech with your team, you’ll learn a ton in this course.

These Kinds of People
Existing React developers – apply your existing skill set and pick up Gatsby quickly
WordPress / Drupal Devs – Bring your existing backend and use Gatsby for the front end.
Students – Build your personal portfolio website with Gatsby
Agency Devs – Agencies love Gatsby because it’s quick to build, easy to share code between projects and doesn’t require babysitting once it’s built because it’s compiles to HTML, CSS and JS.
Marketers – SEO friendly, easy to host, great for microsites.
Designers – Know a bit of CSS and JS? Bring your designs to life with Gatsby.
New Developers – Gatsby and React.js are some currently some of the best skills to have on your resume
Humans – I’ve run out of categories, what I’m trying to say here is that you should take the course!
With These Skills
You should be comfortable with writing JavaScript – take my Beginner JavaScript course if you want to get a solid foundation first.

Some basic React skills – writing JSX and components – are good, but you’ll be able to pick it up as we go.

Some of the more advanced React stuff – custom hooks, state management, context – is taught as part of this course so you’ll learn with us!

All the code for the course is open source and posted on Github.