# Gatsby.js

GatsbyJS is a React-based, GraphQL powered, static site generator. What does that even mean? Well, it weaves together the best parts of React, webpack, react-router, GraphQL, and other front-end tools in to one very enjoyable developer experience. Don’t get hung up on the moniker ‘static site generator’. That term has been around for a while, but Gatsby is far more like a modern front-end framework than a static site generator of old.

It uses powerful preconfiguration to build a website that uses only static files for incredibly fast page loads, service workers, code splitting, server-side rendering, intelligent image loading, asset optimization, and data prefetching.

Currently www.wlion.com was built using Gatsby.js

We recommend reading the Gatsby documentation and becoming familiar with its many features.

# Troubleshooting

# Cleaning the Cache

When in doubt clear your .cache folder by running the following command in the gatsby repo:

gatsby clean

or simply deleting the .cache folder.

This is beneficial when you might be working with different Headless CMS environments.

# Read your Build Logs

The build logs contains invaluable information when trouble shooting. Practice discerning these warning and fatal errors will improve handling deployments in Netlify as well.