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Charles Max Wood
Cory House
Tara Manicsic
Kent C Dodds

Special Guests: Aman Mittal In this episode of React Round Up, the panel discuss setting up and getting used to Gatsby with Aman Mittal. Aman is a computer science graduate, has been working in web development for the past two years, and has worked with companies such as freeCodeCamp. He has been working with React for the past 6 months and started working with Gatsby in January of 2018. They talk about what Gatsby is, why you would want to use it, and what a simple Gatsby site would look like. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Aman introduction
What is your experience with React?
Working with Gatsby because of a client
What is Gatsby?
Gatsby uses React
Has become quite mature
Why Choose Gatsby?
Good with small and medium business clients
Gatsby and PWAs
Does it rely heavily on GraphQL?
GraphQL is useful with Gatsby but it is not necessary
What would a simple Gatsby site look like?
Index component
Has support for CSS and JS
The distinction between a static site generator and a normal web app
Is Gatsby interactive on the front-end?
More mature than other static site generators
Generate HTML files for all of your routes
Gatsby gives you the best of both worlds
Gatsby’s own website
Workshop.me
How would you suggest people get started with Gatsby?
And much, much more!

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RRU 006: Setting Up and Getting Used to Gatsby with Aman Mittal