Conclusion

In this section, we covered a slew of advanced topics that ran the gamut from IaC with Gatsby recipes and schema customization to expert configuration and performance optimization. Though Gatsby comes equipped with many defaults that suit the vast majority of Gatsby sites, sometimes developers require more flexibility to handle more nuanced requirements or to extend existing capabilities with features like MDX. In addition, using Gatsby in production can lead to other required actions on the part of the developer to reconcile drift between environments and optimize performance for real-world conditions.

This section concludes our overview of how developers can leverage Gatsby for a wide variety of site development needs. But our exploration of Gatsby isn’t yet at a close. In the last and final section of this app, we’ll take a quick look behind the scenes and dig into the nuts and bolts of what makes Gatsby tick, including topics such as schema generation, page creation, query extraction and execution, writing out pages, and bundling everything together for the journey to the browser.