DEVNOTES.md

Development Notes

Using this for documenting notes, discoveries, and TODO's during development.

Most info here are things that I'm learning during research, but need to circle back on later.

Improvements

• Improve build logging using the gatsby reporter
  • What does panicOnBuild do?
  • Should see what activityTimer does UI wise in the CLI
    • same with createProgress
• Reformat the file structure
• Look into if special support is needed for the markdown field type
  • https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby/tree/master/packages/gatsby-transformer-remark
  • Search markdown gatsby
• Add experimental setting to replace empty strings with null while sourcing nodes.

Gatsby Node Creation

• The touchNode action seems like it would be something worth investigating for proper data caching. Docs, Example Use
  • The example may be doing this for the development server?

Gatsby Image Functionality

• This article here explains the basics of adding Gatbsy Image support to a plugin.
• We may want to allow the plugin to run in different image modes? (maybe)
  • possible image modes
    • Raw
    • Imgix
    • local