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

# Overview

We’ve been using the conventional inline styling method to style our project all this time. We style components by using defined objects with the style rules as key-value pairs.

```js
import React from "react"

const Text = () => <p style={styles.paragraph}> paragraph one </p>

const styles = {
  paragraph: { color: 'blue' }
}
```

While this method works, it is not the best way to go about this. This is because it could make our component files get quite bulky, and we also cannot fully use the potential of traditional CSS styling.

To let us use CSS files to create style rules, Gatsby extends `import` so we can import CSS style files directly into our component.

# Component-level CSS

Let’s consider the style above. We can first declare the styles in an external CSS file as follows:

# Overview

We’ve been using the conventional inline styling method to style our project all this time. We style components by using defined objects with the style rules as key-value pairs.

```js
import React from "react"

const Text = () => <p> paragraph one </p>

const styles = {
  paragraph: { color: 'blue' }
}
```

While this method works, it is not the best way to go about this. This is because it could make our component files get quite bulky, and we also cannot fully use the potential of traditional CSS styling.

To let us use CSS files to create style rules, Gatsby extends `import` so we can import CSS style files directly into our component.

# Component-level CSS

Let’s consider the style above. We can first declare the styles in an external CSS file as follows:

Learn about styling GatsbyJS sites using the built-in CSS support.

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

Using the Built-in CSS Support

Overview