We’ll take a look at how Gatsby, which is a PWA generator, uses GraphQL to pull in data at build time and also its implications on performance.

As the process of creating for the web continues to evolve we see that methods continue to get better. Engineers find ways to take the best parts of the best technologies and merge them together to create a more efficient system.

When fetching data in traditional web platforms, the process is mostly handled by the fetch API, the Axios library, or using a query language like GraphQL. This data is mostly handled at runtime. However, we have seen that while handling data at runtime we may notice that this routine in the application if not handled properly might lead to a larger load time than needed. As a solution, we can take advantage of some abstractions that fetch in some of our data at runtime while optimizing with static content at build time and offers performance advantages.

As with static sites, most of the data is pulled in at build time. In this article, we will be looking at how Gatsby, which is a PWA generator, uses GraphQL to pull in data at build time and also its implications on performance.

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