Gatsby - How to Create a Static Website

Let's check out How to Create a Static Website using Gatsby. Previously I have posted about the 11ty static site generator. I hope many of you who followed my posts in the past found it useful. Based on that I decided to post another post on the gatsby.

So what is Gatsby? Gatsby is basically a react based static site generator for creating static site and the blog. I have created short video tutorial that covers the content in short. I hope you find this short video instruction useful.

Now if you want to get an idea of the environment set up ideas. You should think of the setup instructions that are required for setting up the gatsby.

After you setup and verified the gatsby install. You can follow the above video for the rest of the setup and creating the basic static site. You can even connect your WordPress setup with the gatsby. That would also work. A lot of bloggers have started making use of the gatsby for various type of the blog and static site setup.

What type of the Projects You Can Make with Gatsby?

You can use the gatsby for making the projects like company website, static website, single page website with some data. You can also create forms and websites which take minimal amount of the data into the project. Hopefully you would find some value with the gatsby like projects.

I personally make use of the Gatsby with the WordPress or even with the static site. They are kind of easy to load and quicker to use and deploy as well. I do however think that there are some of the websites that need other means for the development.

Where to deploy the Gatsby websites?

You can make use of the gatsby website for the various use case as explained above. You can make use of the gatsby to be deployed on various websites that are out there. Heroku, netflify, render and the Digital Ocean are some of the places for the deployment of such static site or the sites that need that sort of the deployment.

I think vercel is also another good choice for deploying such type of the content. I would say it's easy to deploy and also the free to use for the time being. You can get the paid features if you move the enterprise plans. I think such simple use case would not require you money for hosting such site.

My focus is on covering various type of the static site development. Which makes it easy for me guide the folks who are interested in the development of the simple sites and the blogs. Hopefully my content helps those who are in search of something simple to do and deploy. So keep an eye on the development here.

I hope this post gets you to learn the Gatsby for setup and also deploy on the web.