Deploying your Gatsby.js site to Netlify.

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I've built a few sites now using Gatsby.js, the fantastic static site generator tool based on React. When I first started out I hosted my sites on Github pages, which sometimes became tedious, I think i lost hours trying to make sure the pathPrefix was correct.

I eventually came across Netlify, a cloud based hosting provider and much more.

What i found remarkable was their free tier hosting which provides everything I needed.

So this guide is a top level look at hosting a personal portfolio site on Github/Netlify.

First things first, make sure you have your Gatsby.js project on Github.

I've chosen Github here.

Select which repository you would like Netlify to host, I've created a Gatsby demo here called davids-gatsby-site from the Gatsby starter kit.

Now Netlify should automatically detect our site is Gatsby.js and pre-populate the Basic built settings.

Pro tip: If we wanted to we can create a netlify.toml file, we won't dive into this today but one of the advantages of this are we can keep this in code.

Click Deploy.

Deployment will run in the background, then after a few mins it should be done.