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Source and Create Nodes with Data from an API in Gatsby to Create a Pokemon Pokedex

Offered By: egghead.io

Tags

Gatsby Courses Web Development Courses GraphQL Courses CSS Grid Courses

Course Description

Overview

The Gatsby ecosystem supports a ton of plugins that allow you to easily source data from a variety of sources like a GraphQL CMS or Wordpress. But what if you wanted to source your own custom data?
In this collection, we'll walk through learning how to source custom data and create nodes in Gatsby in order to build out a Pokedex using the PokeAPI. We'll learn how to request the data in Gatsby's build process, create nodes with that data, query that data, and use it to create a Pokemon Pokedex UI.

Syllabus

  • Request Data from a Custom API Endpoint to Source Nodes in Gatsby with gatsby-node.js
  • Create and Source Custom Nodes from Data in Gatsby with createNode
  • Use Gatsby’s GraphQL Explorer GraphiQL to Query and Browse Your Custom Sourced Data
  • Use Gatsby’s useStaticQuery React Hook to Query Custom Sourced Data for a Web App
  • Create a Custom React Hook Using Gatsby’s useStaticQuery to Query Custom Sourced Data
  • Create a Grid Layout of List Items Using CSS Grid Templates
  • Add a Cutout Notch to an HTML Element with a CSS Polygon Clip Path

Taught by

Colby Fayock

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