In this episode, James and Amy discuss the tech behind jamesqquick.com. This site was built on top of Gatsby and Sanity. They discuss the decisions James made along the way and the things he might do differently.

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Show Notes

0:00 Intro

3:05 Context in building jamesqquick.com

4:46 Deciding to rebuild the site on Gatsby

• Gatsby - https://www.gatsbyjs.com/

6:29 Upgrades and improvements from moving off WordPress

8:28 The Gatsby Plugin Ecosystem

9:03 Sending your RSS feed to Dev.to for cross-posting

• Tutorial: Publishing a Post Pulled in via an RSS Feed

12:18 Hosting

13:00 Sponsor: Vercel

13:49 Moving from Markdown to Sanity

21:35 Email Marketing

• MailChimp
• ConvertKit
• Podia

22:25 Serverless Functions

23:14 Sponsor: Pathwire

• MailGun - http://mailgun.com
• MailJet - http://mailjet.com

25:18 React Ecosystem

26:12 React Awesome Reveal

26:37 Font Awesome for Icons

27:14 For styling, using Scss

• Difference between Scss and Sass

30:45 Sponsor: ZEAL

31:19 Things you'd do differently

• Styled Components
• Tailwind CSS
• Next.js

35:14 Grab Bag Question #1: If you are the only updating Sanity, can you host it locally or does it need to be accessible online?

36:12 Grab Bag Question #2: When will you migrate your site to Next.js?

36:24 Grab Bag Question #3: How do you like Sanity as an authoring experience?

37:29 Picks and Plugs

37:40 James's Pick: Tripod with a Selfie Light

38:34 James's Plug: James Q Quick on YouTube

38:55 Amy's Pick: Hunt a Killer (30% off)

40:30 Amy's Plug: SelfTeach.me on YouTube