Why does Gatsby use GraphQL? In this series you’ll learn how to create pages in Gatsby, how data becomes hard to manage over time, and how GraphQL helps limit the complexity of data management.

Why does Gatsby use GraphQL? This is part 1 of a 4-part series that shows how to create pages in Gatsby, how data becomes hard to manage over time, and how GraphQL helps limit the complexity of data management.

Let's create a page using React component templates and no data at all.

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Create a Gatsby Page Without Any Data

Why does Gatsby use GraphQL? This is part 2 of a 4-part series that shows how to create pages in Gatsby, how data becomes hard to manage over time, and how GraphQL helps limit the complexity of data management.

In this video, you’ll create a page by hard-coding data into the context, then accessing it via the `pageContext` prop that Gatsby will pass to the template React component.

Create a Gatsby Page With Hard-Coded Data

Why does Gatsby use GraphQL? This is part 3 of a 4-part series that shows how to create pages in Gatsby, how data becomes hard to manage over time, and how GraphQL helps limit the complexity of data management.

In this video, you’ll create product pages from a JSON file and add images to the pages. This video starts to show the complexity of managing complex data.

Create Pages from JSON With Images

Why does Gatsby use GraphQL? This is part 4 of a 5-part series that shows how to create pages in Gatsby, how data becomes hard to manage over time, and how GraphQL helps limit the complexity of data management.

In this video, you’ll add product data from a JSON file and corresponding images to Gatsby’s GraphQL data layer.

Make Data Queryable in GraphQL With Gatsby

Why does Gatsby use GraphQL? This is part 5 of a 5-part series that shows how to create pages in Gatsby, how data becomes hard to manage over time, and how GraphQL helps limit the complexity of data management.

In this video, you’ll generate pages with optimized images using GraphQL queries.

Why Gatsby Uses GraphQL

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