Creating Gatsby Source Plugins with Dillion Megida - RRU 272

React Round Up

In today’s episode of React Round Up, Nigerian-based developer Dillion Megida explains how you can create source plugins for Gatsby, the static site generation tool. Gatsby can be used to create landing pages, blogs and e-commerce sites, among other things, and it contains a vast plugin ecosystem that helps developers avoid reinventing the wheel when creating their applications. Dillion also shares his experience blogging for websites such as LogRocket, FreeCodecamp and Dev.to and talks us through his workflow and how he comes up with new article ideas.
Links

• How to Build a Gatsby Source Plugin, using Hashnode as an example
• Paige Niedringhaus
• Gatsby Plugin Library
• TheWebFor5
• Web sharing API
• A deep dive into queues in Node.js
• gatsby-source-medium
• Hashnode
• Twitter: Dillion Megida ( @iamdillion )
• Dillion Megida - Frontend Engineer and Technical Writer

Picks

• Carl- BBQ tips
• Carl- JAMstacked newsletter
• Dillion- Cypress
• Paige- Battery Chargers - OptiMate
• TJ- Remotion
• TJ- Remotion demo

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