Discover essential tips for leveraging Gatsby in your web projects. Learn how to create reusable SEO components with React Helmet for better metadata management. Get insights on troubleshooting builds and why utilizing ES modules can enhance your workflow. Master layout components to optimize site design and navigation, and explore advanced capabilities like passing context with the onCreatePage hook. Plus, hear about strategies for efficient image handling using tools like Cloudinary, ensuring a smooth performance for your Gatsby sites.
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Reusable SEO Component
Create a reusable SEO component with React Helmet to manage metadata efficiently.
Set default values and allow overrides for specific pages.
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React Helmet Strategy
Use React Helmet for page-specific metadata, starting with a general app-level component.
Increase specificity as you move down the component tree.
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Troubleshooting Gatsby Builds
When Gatsby behaves unexpectedly, stop and restart the build process.
Consider clearing the cache, deleting node_modules, and reinstalling packages.
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Show Notes
02:02 - React Helmet
Make a re-usable SEO component that sets defaults. Spread children to override.
04:27 - When in doubt, stop the build and restart
Gatsby clean
Nuke node_modules + package-lock
05:34 - Use ESM to use ES Modules everywhere - share functions between gatsby-node and gatsby-browser
06:44 - Run the build command locally to troubleshoot prod
Dev mode isn’t SSG’d - people overlook this
08:06 - Wrap your layout automatically in gatsby-ssr and gatbsy-browser
wrapPageElement and wrapRootElement
09:50 - Consider just adding the layout component manually to each page
This will allow you to skip the layout if you need to have a page that isn’t typical
11:21 - Layout is not suitable for unmount animations
Orchestrating individual component animations in Gatsby isn’t easy, use wrapPageElement to write your animations or delays for internally unmounted components.
12:59 - use onCreatePage to pass context to the layout
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