Summary

I appreciate that most of the content in this chapter has been theoretical, but it's important to understand the "why" as well as the "how." In this chapter, we have cemented the baseline knowledge of what Gatsby is and grasped the guiding principles we will be using in further chapters to build our website. We've seen examples of where Gatsby is being used and the benefits it can bring. We discussed what dependencies you need and how to initialize Gatsby projects. We have also set up a complete basic Gatsby project and created the first few pages of our website. We then used the built-in Gatsby components and functions to link our pages together.

We will be referencing the theory we've outlined in this chapter throughout this book, but for now, let's turn our focus to styling our web application. In the next chapter, we will identify various different styling methodologies and make an informed choice about which one you should use for your project.