Conclusion

When you’ve finished building your Gatsby site and have ensured no issues remain that block release, it’s important to give careful thought to deployment. You’ll want to facilitate the optimal deployment infrastructure for your site, both now and in the future. Thanks to environment variables, path prefixes, and asset prefixes, Gatsby provides a variety of mechanisms to protect your site from prying eyes and to deploy it and its assets flexibly.

In addition, various infrastructure providers offer compelling cases for using their services to deploy your Gatsby site. Though we didn’t venture too deeply into the inner workings of any of these services, you should have a good idea of the options available—and the number of available hosting solutions for Gatsby sites will only continue to grow. Having covered some of the most important concerns for placing your Gatsby site in the hands of your users, in the next two sections we’ll delve into some advanced concepts in Gatsby and how it works on the inside to conclude our journey through the Gatsby framework.