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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Gatsby Themes

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, Technology, News

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk with Jason Lengstorf from the Gatsby team about Gatsby themes, and the future of Gatsby in general. LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at LogRocket. Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at Freshbook and put SYNTAX in the “How did you hear about us?” section. Show Notes 2:18 - Jason Lengstorf - What do you do? 9:37 - Gatsby refresher Gatsby is statically generated gatsby-config.js file determines which plugins you use gatsby-node.js allows us to hook into Gatsby at different points and do things like source content and dynamically create pages gatsby-browser.js contains code that should hook into browser events 13:54 - Gatsby themes Layouts in Gatsby are done the same way in React - simply create a component with children How is this different than a plugin? Is it a collection of plugins? How do you share themes? Can they include functionality (plugins?) Like Markdown rendering? What about a theme that needs a UI once activated? What about custom fields for Gatsby? Do you foresee a marketplace like WordPress themes? Are there some themes already out there? What will come for themes soon? 34:07 - Questions about Gatsby What do you think about WordPress? E-commerce? How do you make money? Suggested way of doing dynamic things What is the future of Gatsby? Links Gatsby Jason Lengstorf Livestream Progressive Disclosure of Complexity Gatsby Themes Sanity Gatsby + Sanity.io Snipcart Axios Algolia Netlify Airtable Hope in Source - Henry Zhiu ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Jason: Kamado Joe Grill Scott: Zojirushi Hybrid Water Boiler and Warmer Wes: Waterproof Digital Instant Read Meat Thermometer Shameless Plugs Jason’s Weekly Live stream Scott’s Courses Wes’ Courses - Use the coupon code ‘Syntax’ for $10 off! Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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0:00.0

You're listening to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there.

0:06.0

Strap yourself in and get ready.

0:08.0

Here is Scott Telinsky and West Boss.

0:10.5

Welcome to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats.

0:15.0

We got a banger for you today.

0:17.4

We have Jason, how do you say your last name?

0:20.0

Langstorf.

0:20.8

Langstors, Langstorf from the Gatsby team who's going to talk to us all about today about

0:28.0

Gatsby themes which is something I am pretty excited about. With me also as always is Mr. Scott Tolinsky,

0:35.0

how you doing today Scott?

0:36.2

Hey, I'm doing super good.

0:38.2

I just got off the weekend.

0:39.0

It was Mother's Day this weekend,

0:40.7

and my lovely son decided to get his mother a whole lot of throw-up

0:46.6

for Mother's Day and he let it loose on her and that's how our Mother's Day went but I hope you're all went better than that.

0:57.0

Yeah, mine went pretty smoothly so I'm thankful for no throw up.

1:03.6

Today we've got two awesome sponsors.

1:06.2

We got Log Rocket, which is going to track all of the errors

1:09.7

and how they happen.

1:10.6

They can play them back to you

1:11.8

and you can see exactly what went wrong on your

1:13.8

website and Fresh Books which is your cloud accounting is gonna invoice

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