Explore GatsbyJS to build dynamic static sites and apps. Gain insights into starters, themes, plugins, GraphQL data queries, styling, custom 404s, SEO, and cloud deployment.

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Gatsby is a React-based and GraphQL-powered static site generator. It delivers websites with excellent loading speed. It can be used to build diverse websites, including websites with static data—like portfolios and informative websites—and rich and dynamic web apps like blogs, e-commerce sites, and more. Gatsby fetches data at build-time from different sources and compiles it into static HTML, which can then be deployed to your favorite web server. 

In this course, you’ll learn about the basics of Gatsby, including the use of starters, themes, plugins, layouts, and pages. You’ll then learn how to query data with GraphQL and fetch data from various data sources. You’ll also see how to style Gatsby projects and add features such as custom 404 pages and SEOs. In the end, you’ll see how to deploy Gatsby websites on different cloud hosting platforms. 

This course enables new and existing frontend web developers to become masters in GatsbyJS and use this tool to create blazingly fast static web projects.

How to Gatsby: The Complete Course

# Building the project

Now that we’re done with the local development of our project, it’s time to build it. Building Gatsby projects is as easy as running one line of command: `gatsby build`. This generates production-ready folders and files that can be hosted on our favorite hosting provider to make our site accessible to the public.

These build folders can also be served and tested locally to make sure things work well as expected when the site is deployed. For this, we run `gatsby build` first to build the site, and then `gatsby serve` to serve this build. While developing on a local machine, we can now test this build on `localhost:9000`.

>**Note:** We have already looked at the `gatsby build` and `gatsby serve` commands in [The Gatsby CLI lesson](https://www.educative.io/courses/how-to-gatsby-the-complete-course/the-gatsby-cli). We can reference it for command options.


Learn how to generate production builds of our project, ready for deployment.

Introduction to Course

Getting Started

Gatsby Basics

Data Sources

Fetching Data From Sources

Styling: Making Our Project Pretty

Features and Modifications

Deployment

Wrapping Up

Appendix

Building and Deploying the Project

Building the project