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Migrating to React land: Gatsby

What's this blog post about?

Victoria Bernard, an engineer at Cloudflare, shares her experience migrating developer documentation from Hugo to Gatsby. She explains why she chose Gatsby over Hugo and how the process unfolded. The main reasons for switching were the ability to handle more complex logic with React and the desire to improve the site's performance and SEO score. Bernard also provides a step-by-step guide on how to port markdown files from Hugo to Gatsby, focusing on creating pages and handling sidebar components. She concludes by sharing some lessons learned during the migration process and expressing her satisfaction with the results.

Company
Cloudflare

Date published
March 26, 2020

Author(s)
Victoria Bernard

Word count
3128

Hacker News points
None found.

Language
English


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