By Garrett Dimon on April 9th, 2021
When the Elevar team set out to migrate StriVectin from Magento to Shopify, they started with Storybook, a tool for developing UI components in isolation for React. Using Storybook with Gatsby enabled the team to delay decisions about hosting and content management, focusing on one decision at a time.
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By Paul Scanlon on April 8th, 2021
A step by step guide to setting up your first Gatsby + WordPress website -- choose your own adventure style!
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By Michael Anft on April 6th, 2021
Looking for a sleeker, faster website, the guitar giant lays down a Gatsby front end.
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By Garrett Dimon on April 5th, 2021
Strivectin had an incredibly popular e-commerce store for a variety of anti-aging skincare products. The challenge: it was powered by a seven-year-old codebase on a legacy platform. For the planned refresh, Strivectin's agency, Elevar, turned to Gatsby -- first to rapidly protoype a performant, scalable, secure future, and then to build the site itself.
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By Eric Howey on April 2nd, 2021
Life in tech is all about moving fast: there is enormous pressure to just ship it. But research shows that continually rushing to work as hard as we can, as fast as we can, has the surprisingly opposite of effect: It actually slows us down. We mess up, we miss things, we make poorer decisions. And, over time, we burn out. Ironically, slowing down can actually help us speed up...Without getting burned out.
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By Paul Scanlon on April 1st, 2021
Like many devs, Paul Scanlon avoided WordPress projects whenever possible — until he tried Gatsby’s new WordPress source plugin. His Future Shapes project demonstrates using WordPress as simply a data source to do bold new things with the web’s most popular CMS, thanks to Gatsby and WPGraphQL.
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By Matt Kane on March 31st, 2021
The Gatsby image plugin is designed to make the job of including high-performance, responsive images in your site as smooth as possible. However, there are still some optimizations to help you achieve peak results and avoid a few common pitfalls. Follow these tips and your images will be super-speedy and your Lighthouse scores will always be green.
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By Garrett Dimon on March 29th, 2021
A design system is more than a component library. IBM, Capital One, and Thumbtack have all used Gatsby to document not just their component libraries but the design system in which they're used. Teams valued the great content composability experience, ability to pull in data from third party systems, rich experience for internal users, and ability to solicit feedback from non-developers they got with Gatsby.
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