🦋 Composing Gatsby Themes with Chris Biscardi

What are the differences between Gatsby sites, themes, and plugins?

In this advanced workshop, you'll learn the answer!

We'll start with a website for a fictitious SaaS startup built on Wordpress & MDX with all of the features you're used to:

• Marketing pages
• Product pages
• Blogs
• eCommerce Store
• Dashboard hidden behind client-side auth

One at a time, we'll turn each of these slices of functionality into a set of themes that horizontally compose well with each other.

After everything's been split up, you will build a deeper understanding of parent/child theme relationships by exploring the blog data model with schema customization APIs that allow us to create multiple child themes with data sourced from different node types.

During the workshop, you'll also pick up some skills around:

• Using yarn workspaces
• Creating theme starters
• Dealing with theme conflicts
• Styling & React Contexts
• Optimizing gatsby-config
• Advanced component shadowing techniques
• Lots more!