By Matt Kane on March 31st, 2021
The Gatsby image plugin is designed to make the job of including high-performance, responsive images in your site as smooth as possible. However, there are still some optimizations to help you achieve peak results and avoid a few common pitfalls. Follow these tips and your images will be super-speedy and your Lighthouse scores will always be green.
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By Garrett Dimon on March 29th, 2021
A design system is more than a component library. IBM, Capital One, and Thumbtack have all used Gatsby to document not just their component libraries but the design system in which they're used. Teams valued the great content composability experience, ability to pull in data from third party systems, rich experience for internal users, and ability to solicit feedback from non-developers they got with Gatsby.
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By Michelle Gienow on March 26th, 2021
Welcome to the fifth -- and final -- phase of #100DaysOfGatsby, Gatsby’s guided coding challenge for 2021!
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By Sam Bhagwat on March 23rd, 2021
Cabrillo College, with 12,000 students, is the main community college serving Santa Cruz County in northern California. When Cabrillo was looking to rebuild their website, they wanted to use modern technology, deliver a scalable solution, and most importantly, capture the Cabrillo experience by empowering faculty and administrators responsible for its groups, departments, and institutions.
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By Matthew Frawley on March 17th, 2021
The story (and code) behind building a very silly, and very cool, animated website depicting one of the silliest poems ever written!
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By Sam Bhagwat on March 16th, 2021
Game development company Hi-Rez Studios was blocked from creating ambitious, interactive web experiences for their user community — until they went headless with WordPress and Gatsby.
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By Paul Scanlon on March 12th, 2021
When excited about a new project it's natural to dive in and start writing code. As developer Paul Scanlon learned during a previous career in advertising, however, applying a single preprocessing step before launching into execution can make your project go more quickly, more efficiently, and -- most important -- even more enjoyably.
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By Sam Bhagwat on March 9th, 2021
As Gatsby continues to be used for building larger and more complex sites, we are constantly asking our users and the community how we could improve. Among professional Gatsby developers, we tend to hear less about specific bugs and feature requests and more about qualities they want and need in their site -- faster load times, shorter publish times, and so on.
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