After all is said and done, structure + order = fun! Senior Software Engineer (Developer Relations) for Gatsby
By Paul Scanlon on November 16th, 2022
Welcome to the Gatsby 2022 Glow Up! (thanks to Sophia Andren for coining that phrase!) This post is about how I've used Gatsby’s latest creation, The Valhalla Content Hub, and teamed it with Remix to build my NYC Diary.
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By Paul Scanlon on November 14th, 2022
As good as the Slice API is, it does come with one or two restrictions. To be clear, these are by design rather than an oversight. One such restriction I ran into was when I attempted to pass a prop of type function to the Slice component.
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By Paul Scanlon on November 8th, 2022
In this post Paul explains how he upgraded paulie.dev to Gatsby 5 and is now experiencing ~47% faster build times!
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By Paul Scanlon on May 23rd, 2022
I’d like to Introduce Rise of the Robots. 🤖 A Gatsby + Rive + Contentful powered creative, performant, and accessible demo.
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By Paul Scanlon on April 6th, 2022
In this post I'll explain how to migrate from Netlify Functions hosted on Netlify to Gatsby Functions hosted on Gatsby Cloud.
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By Paul Scanlon on March 31st, 2022
Using methods outlined in this post I'll be demonstrating how to add custom fonts to a Gatsby site in a more performant way.
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By Paul Scanlon on March 23rd, 2022
On Wednesday Mar 2nd 2022 I watched Ersin Akinci’s talk at GatsbyConf: Improve Your Lighthouse Score with Partytown and Gatsby… and I got super excited!
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By Paul Scanlon on January 12th, 2022
In this post I'm going to be discussing how to work with JavaScript animation libraries without negatively impacting your Gatsby site’s performance.
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By Paul Scanlon on January 6th, 2022
Hello! Paul here and I've been given a new assignment! I've been tasked with building the new GatsbyConf 2022 site - yikes! It's quite daunting, but I love it! Over the coming weeks / months I'll be updating this blog post with my progress.
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By Paul Scanlon on December 17th, 2021
Learn how to use Gatsby’s latest page rendering method DSG (Deferred Static Generation) to defer the creation of pages and keep your build times super fast! ⚡
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By Paul Scanlon on December 9th, 2021
As I’m sure you know, Gatsby is absolutely brills for statically generating web pages using any type of data from any kind of data source. In this post I’ll be explaining how to fetch data from the New York Times Archive API and using two of Gatsby’s built in methods to add the data to Gatsby’s global data layer.
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By Paul Scanlon on December 3rd, 2021
As you may have heard, the latest release of Gatsby, Gatsby 4 now supports SSR (Server Side Rendering). 🥳
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By Paul Scanlon on December 3rd, 2021
Data is hard right? I think so too, and with Gatsby there’s more than one way to boil that egg so in this series of blog posts I plan to walk you through the various methods you can use and explain ways you might like to use them.
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By Paul Scanlon on December 1st, 2021
I know where you’re coming from and understand the frustration, so here’s my top tips that might make using Gatsby plugins a little more palatable.
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By Paul Scanlon on November 22nd, 2021
In this post Paul explains how you can make use of Gatsby’s useStaticQuery hook to query different kinds of Contentful data to use around your site!
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By Paul Scanlon on November 18th, 2021
Hello, good morrow and good day! Paul here and I'm back with another super, smashing, great, Gatsby swag giveaway!
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By Paul Scanlon on November 15th, 2021
If you’re looking to build a website using Gatsby and Contentful you’ve come to the right place. In this guide you’ll mainly be focusing on the sourcing of data and learning how gatsby-source-contentful works rather than how to make a pretty looking website.
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By Paul Scanlon on November 2nd, 2021
Contentful’s Rich Text Editor provides content creators with powerful text editing capabilities via the use of Contentful’s "What you see is what you get" (wysiwyg) editor.
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By Paul Scanlon on October 28th, 2021
From August through September Gatsby ran the internet's func’y-est ever community competition: FuncJam ‘21 -- And here are the winners!
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By Paul Scanlon on July 7th, 2021
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By Paul Scanlon on April 15th, 2021
Gatsby sites are optimized to be smaller, sleeker and faster. When built and deployed in Gatsby Cloud they also use fewer data center resources, thanks to Incremental Builds. This efficiency is not just good for developers — it's also good for the environment!
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By Paul Scanlon on April 12th, 2021
A gatsby-plugin-mdx and gatsby-plugin-image demo, taking a deep dive into MDX frontmatter and how it can be used to store references to either local and / or remote images and render them anywhere in the MDX body.
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By Paul Scanlon on April 8th, 2021
A step by step guide to setting up your first Gatsby + WordPress website -- choose your own adventure style!
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By Paul Scanlon on April 1st, 2021
Like many devs, Paul Scanlon avoided WordPress projects whenever possible — until he tried Gatsby’s new WordPress source plugin. His Future Shapes project demonstrates using WordPress as simply a data source to do bold new things with the web’s most popular CMS, thanks to Gatsby and WPGraphQL.
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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 Paul Scanlon on January 28th, 2021
BumHub: A silly idea, butt a firm working process. Hello, I’m Paul and for my Silly Site Challenge I created BumHub: “The cheekiest way to explore GitHub.” I developed this site in public and kept a dev diary of my progress throughout the challenge. For those of you who weren’t following along at home, here is a condensed rundown exposing my process behind building BumHub.
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By Paul Scanlon on October 13th, 2020
Enabling the community to easily write and release plugins for use with Gatsby is an absolute hammer of an idea. It gives Gatsby enthusiasts like myself a way to easily get started with open source by providing a solid foundation for us to build on. Then, once you’ve got the plugin basics down you can really let your imagination run wild. This is the story of how I combined my interest in markdown / MDX with the Gatsby plugin ecosystem to contribute a brand new open source plugin, `gatsby-mdx-embed`. And now I'm looking for #hacktoberfest contributions to help the project reach its first major milestone, a stable v1.0.0 release.
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By Paul Scanlon on September 1st, 2020
If you're a Gatsby open source enthusiast you're probably aware of Gatsby Cloud. But W.T.Flip actually is Gatsby Cloud and why would you choose to make it part of your workflow? Here's one reason: spinning up multiple sites, super fast, from a single repository. Let's see how it's done.
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By Paul Scanlon on May 21st, 2020
Gatsby Recipes were introduced just last month, as a new tool to automate common site building tasks. A Gatsby Recipe is a kind of task runner that can be authored in MDX and then executed from the command line using the Gatsby CLI. Gatsby now ships with a dozen or so default Recipes, and our amazing community has been busy coming up with more useful contributions! React developer Paul Scanlon discussed his process behind making his first two Recipes, and then walks through how to write your own.
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By Paul Scanlon on April 20th, 2020
Paul Scanlon took the #100DaysOfGatsby challenge quite literally: Each day for 100 days, he worked in and around the Gatsby ecosystem—writing a blog post each day to document his labors. Here is an overview of Paul's prodigious output!
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