Create a fast website with Gatsby and WordPress

Today, if you’re talking about web page performance, improving page load times is the most important. Because website speed is a necessity.

Advantages and benefits:

• More secure: no need to worry about server or database vulnerabilities
• Fast performance Serve the predefined markup and resources on a CDN.
• Best SEO rankings. A fast site allows a visitor to stay much longer.
• Cheaper: hosting static files is cheap or even free.
• Better experience for developers: front-end developers can focus on the front end, without being tied to an architecture.

What is Gatsby js?

• Gatsby.js is a free, open-source framework based on React.js.
• it allows you to develop a website using React. It extracts all data from the specified models and transforms into static HTML files optimized for performance.
• Gatsby accesses your data via a query language called GraphQL.
• It uses the latest and most popular technologies, including ReactJS development, Webpack, GraphQL, JavaScript and CSS.
• Fast websites with Gatsby.js and WordPress.

Headless WordPress

• A headless CMS is used for data capture, storage and delivery.
• Its data can be displayed using any front-end technology, whether in a browser, a mobile application or elsewhere.
• Gatsby uses React to render the view files that create the model. And GraphQL uses to retrieve data using GraphQL queries from the database.
• WordPress provides REST Apis which can be used to transfer data to mobile and other applications. This simple functionality will be used here.

It uses the JAMstack:

• J: Javascript
• A: API
• M: Markup
• WordPress development is the most popular CMS, but it doesn’t respond to the speed of front-end technologies. Gatsby.js takes care of all the limitations and helps you build fast blazing websites.
• Integration of Gatsby.js with WordPress.

If you are a beginner and this is the first time for you, the steps below will help you set up a basic Gatsby project.

First of all, it is necessary that Node.js is installed on your server. Because gatsby commands are executed using npm.

Install the Gatsby using the following command in your command prompt.

npm install -g gatsby-cli

Then create a new Gatsby.js site using the following command.

gatsby new site name

Finally, using the following command, the development server will start and create your Gatsby.js site.

gatsby develop