In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk with Jason Lengstorf from the Gatsby team about Gatsby themes, and the future of Gatsby in general.

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Show Notes

2:18 - Jason Lengstorf - What do you do?

9:37 - Gatsby refresher

• Gatsby is statically generated
• gatsby-config.js file determines which plugins you use
• gatsby-node.js allows us to hook into Gatsby at different points and do things like source content and dynamically create pages
• gatsby-browser.js contains code that should hook into browser events

13:54 - Gatsby themes

• Layouts in Gatsby are done the same way in React - simply create a component with children
• How is this different than a plugin?
• Is it a collection of plugins?
• How do you share themes?
• Can they include functionality (plugins?) Like Markdown rendering?
• What about a theme that needs a UI once activated?
• What about custom fields for Gatsby?
• Do you foresee a marketplace like WordPress themes?
• Are there some themes already out there?
• What will come for themes soon?

34:07 - Questions about Gatsby

• What do you think about WordPress?
• E-commerce?
• How do you make money?
• Suggested way of doing dynamic things
• What is the future of Gatsby?

Links

• Gatsby
• Jason Lengstorf
• Livestream
• Progressive Disclosure of Complexity
• Gatsby Themes
• Sanity
• Gatsby + Sanity.io
• Snipcart
• Axios
• Algolia
• Netlify
• Airtable
• Hope in Source - Henry Zhiu

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