Hasty Treat - Gatsby Tips

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about tips and tricks for using Gatsby in your projects LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. Show Notes 02:02 - React Helmet • Make a re-usable SEO component that sets defaults. Spread children to override. 04:27 - When in doubt, stop the build and restart • Gatsby clean • Nuke node_modules + package-lock 05:34 - Use ESM to use ES Modules everywhere - share functions between gatsby-node and gatsby-browser 06:44 - Run the build command locally to troubleshoot prod • Dev mode isn’t SSG’d - people overlook this 08:06 - Wrap your layout automatically in gatsby-ssr and gatbsy-browser • wrapPageElement and wrapRootElement 09:50 - Consider just adding the layout component manually to each page • This will allow you to skip the layout if you need to have a page that isn’t typical 11:21 - Layout is not suitable for unmount animations • Orchestrating individual component animations in Gatsby isn’t easy, use wrapPageElement to write your animations or delays for internally unmounted components. 12:59 - use onCreatePage to pass context to the layout exports.onCreatePage = ({ page, actions }) => { const { createPage } = actions; if (page.path.match(/thumbnail/)) { page.context.layout = 'thumbnail'; createPage(page); } }; 14:03 - You don’t have to query for everything • Hard-coding data in html/jsx is super valid 15:32 - Gatsby Parallel Runner • For lots of images Links • Gridsom • Google Cloud • Cloudinary • Sanity Image Tweet us your tasty treats! • Scott’s Instagram • LevelUpTutorials Instagram • Wes’ Instagram • Wes’ Twitter • Wes’ Facebook • Scott’s Twitter • Make sure to include @SyntaxFM • in your tweets