The Gatsby Build Lifecycle

The Gatsby build lifecycle consists of a series of steps, many of which will be recognizable from the overviews of some of these APIs in previous sections. After nodes are sourced and created, a schema is generated to facilitate GraphQL queries in Gatsby pages and components. Thereafter, the queries are executed to create the pages that form the eventual static site that results. In this section, we’ll cover each of the lifecycle events in succession.

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For more information about the internal data bridge, an internal Gatsby plugin that is used to create nodes representing pages, plugins, and site configuration for arbitrary introspection (access of data structures that represent those assets, such as in gatsby-plugin-sitemap), consult the guide to the internal data bridge in the Gatsby documentation.