Getting Back to Fun: Announcing the Gatsby Silly Site Challenge!
By Linda Watkins on November 18th, 2020
2020 has been one intense year. Let's all take some time to play (and maybe learn a thing or two)!
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By Linda Watkins on November 18th, 2020
2020 has been one intense year. Let's all take some time to play (and maybe learn a thing or two)!
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By Ward Peeters on October 16th, 2020
We're very excited to announce GitHub Discussions: A place for the Gatsby community to ask questions, submit ideas and give feedback on new features (RFC). Discussions will help us better differentiate questions, features and other non-bug tickets from actual issues...and also easier for all of you to help us squash bugs and make Gatsby even better!
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By Kyle Mathews on August 13th, 2020
We've heard the serious concern from the community about our dedication to open source and our growing pains as an organization. I've shared my thoughts about all of it here in this blog post, and I'll continue to listen and learn from all of you.
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By Mikhail Novikov on August 5th, 2020
On August 12th we will be making changes to community permissions in the GatsbyJS open source repo. Here's what will be happening, and why -- plus announcing some new community programs and contributor opportunities.
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By Kat Huang on July 9th, 2020
Gatsby Themes are like Gatsby sites for separate functionalities that can be joined together to create a fully featured website. As an intern on GitHub’s design systems team, Cole Bemis helped build a Gatsby theme with out-of-the-box support for all the features that GitHub's documentation sites needed.
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By Kat Huang on July 2nd, 2020
Gatsby Recipes help automate common site building tasks like automate package and plugin installation. Recipes can even generate pages and code! In his Gatsby Days presentation Sam Julien, Senior Developer Advocate Engineer at Auth0, walks viewers through building a Recipe to automatically set up authentication in a Gatsby site.
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By Kat Huang on June 30th, 2020
Maps come in many forms, but they almost always help make data more meaningful -- and mapping apps are easier to build than you might think. Colby Fayock, Lead UX and Front End Engineer at Element 84, shows how to quickly build a compelling map application using React Leaflet and Gatsby.
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By Marcy Sutton on June 29th, 2020
The 2020 WebAIM Million survey collected data on up to 1200 different technologies used in home pages and examined the results to see if common accessibility errors corresponded with usage of different technologies. One repeatedly stood out as aligning with significantly fewer accessibility issues: Gatsby. Home pages built with Gatsby had 44% fewer detectable errors than the average.
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By Kat Huang on June 25th, 2020
For new front end developers, the sheer number of technologies available can be overwhelming. After Derek Murr graduated from coding bootcamp he found that Gatsby helped him get right to work building projects to help jump start his career -- instead of configuring tools.
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By Kat Huang on June 24th, 2020
Makenna Smutz shows you how to choose a tech stack for creating an e-commerce store from multiple services, using Gatsby to tie them all together -- for free!
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By Dustin Schau on June 23rd, 2020
With all the momentous events of recent weeks, we decided -- after a lot of discussion and thought -- to reconfigure this month’s planned Gatsby Days. Now is not the right time to take attention and space away from the Black Lives Matter movement. Transforming Gatsby Days from a live event into a video and blog content series allows us to share all the amazing speakers and learning opportunities of the live event in a way that the community can access as the time is right for each of us. Today’s post is the first in the series, presenting all the product and program announcements that we had planned for the original online event.
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By Shannon Soper on June 18th, 2020
Our second set of results from the Gatsby Command Line Survey have been compiled. And guess what? Responses are changing in interesting ways that both validate and clarify the community's priorities.
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By Sam Larsen-Disney on June 16th, 2020
A Gatsby solution for crystal clear slides for everyone, using minimal bandwidth and cool bonus slide navigation using gestures powered by PoseNet.
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By Bianca Feliciano Nedjar on June 11th, 2020
This is a pivotal time for the fight against systemic racism and injustice in the US. It has also sparked a lot of difficult reflection and realizations from those of us who would be allies: the understanding that we all own a piece of this. That we can, and we must, do better. At Gatsby we have been asking ourselves some hard questions about how we need to change so we can become better allies.
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By Kyle Mathews on May 22nd, 2020
“Five years ago today, a nascent Gatsby emerged in the form of Issue 1 on the brand new Gatsbyjs GitHub repo. Here are some thoughts about where we began and how Gatsby has evolved during this most interesting demi-decade.”
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By Laci Texter on May 13th, 2020
Our first virtual Gatsby Days is coming June 2-3, 2020. It will be live-streamed on YouTube from 9:00am to noon PST both days, and here are some of the awesome speakers you'll be hearing from!
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By Laci Texter on April 23rd, 2020
Our first virtual Gatsby Days is coming June 2-3, 2020. It will be live-streamed on YouTube from 9:00am to noon PST both days, and we want YOU to send in a speaker proposal!
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By Shannon Soper on April 16th, 2020
When we wanted to survey the community about ways we can make Gatsby better, the command line just felt like the right place to ask. Here's what you told us. (And if you didn't get a chance to respond, we'd still love to hear from you).
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By Caitlin Cashin on April 15th, 2020
Gatsby is all about our amazing community, but we are also all about safety. So we are asking most sincerely: If there's an in-person Gatsby community meetup on your calendar, please reschedule or figure out a way to hold it remotely. Here are some ways we are doing that ourselves.
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By Greg Thomas on April 15th, 2020
New York Times Senior Software Engineer Yuraima Estevez shows how developers can improve the accessibility of websites in three “easy” steps that do not involve days of documentation reading.
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By Laci Texter on April 14th, 2020
Our first virtual Gatsby Days is coming June 2-3, 2020. This free remote conference will be live-streamed on YouTube from 9am to noon PST both days, and you can register now!
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By Greg Thomas on April 14th, 2020
UC Davis grad student Daniel Kim explains why Gatsby offers a better framework than React for teaching beginning web development at Gatsby Days LA 2020.
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By Greg Thomas on April 10th, 2020
East African web developer Gatare Libère explains how he first discovered Gatsby and describes the enthusiastic reception he has been experiencing whenever he discusses Gatsby at regional events.
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By Laci Texter on April 7th, 2020
Our first virtual Gatsby Days is coming June 2-3, 2020. It will be live-streamed on YouTube from 1:00-3:00pm EST each day, and now is the time to send in your speaker proposal!
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By Greg Thomas on April 6th, 2020
What are the best options for integrating comments and other dynamic elements into your WordPress website? Zac Gordon evaluates key approaches.
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By Greg Thomas on April 5th, 2020
React developer Grant Glidewell tells how he identified best practices for using Gatsby Builds to cut build time for image-heavy websites by a factor of five.
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By Greg Thomas on April 1st, 2020
How did Gatsby get started and where is it headed? Learn more about the past, present, and future of Gatsby in founder Kyle Mathews' keynote presentation from Gatsby Days LA 2020
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By Bob Orchard on March 26th, 2020
The Service Relief Project is a boilerplate for launching blazing-fast zero-cost directories of local resources to help donors find local fundraisers for workers and businesses in your area who've been affected by mandated shutdowns around the world.
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By Aisha Blake on March 5th, 2020
How can we increase the diversity of open source contributors? As maintainers, we need to listen to a diverse group of community members and make thoughtful changes to create a truly inclusive project.
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By Sidhartha Chatterjee on February 18th, 2020
The last year has been an exciting time for Gatsby. Let's recap over everything we did in 2019.
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By Hashim Warren on February 17th, 2020
The best way to learn web development is abstractions on down, not core primitives on up. Gatsby gives you everything you need to get started quickly, while still customizing what you want as you grow.
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By Sam Bhagwat on February 11th, 2020
Like governments, open-source founding organizations have a responsibility to their communities: to keep them thriving and on the cutting edge. They must create a successful business model and continue to invest in open source as they grow.
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By Jason Lengstorf on August 7th, 2019
During the Theme Jam, 111 themes were created by our incredible community. Join us in celebrating the Gatsby community (that’s you!) and congratulating Vojtěch and Allan!
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By Dustin Schau on June 17th, 2019
In this post, I outline the tasks, responsibilities, and day-to-day happenings of a Core contributor
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By Linda Watkins on May 24th, 2019
Announcing the new Gatsby Community Events Page! Check out the upcoming Gatsby meetups in your area and submit an event for support.
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By Preston So on April 8th, 2019
Members of the Gatsby team will be in attendance at DrupalCon Seattle, JAMstack Conf NYC, and JSHeroes, ready to answer your questions throughout the week.
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By Marisa Morby on January 24th, 2019
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By Lennart Jörgens on January 3rd, 2019
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By Linda Watkins on November 27th, 2018
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By Horacio Herrera on August 11th, 2018
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By Jason Lengstorf on August 9th, 2018
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By Shannon Soper on February 28th, 2018
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