Best AI Coding Tools for Gatsby

Our Top Picks for Gatsby

We've tested the leading AI coding tools specifically for Gatsby development. Here's how they rank based on code accuracy, language-specific features, and overall developer experience.

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Prompting Playbook for Gatsby

• Specify 'Gatsby 5' or your version to avoid deprecated APIs like the old Head management approach
• Mention 'GraphQL page query' or 'useStaticQuery' explicitly so AI generates the correct data fetching mechanism
• Include your CMS source (Contentful, Sanity, WordPress, markdown) so AI generates compatible gatsby-node.js page creation
• When requesting image handling, specify 'gatsby-plugin-image with GatsbyImage' for the modern image component patterns
• Note whether you use Gatsby Cloud, Netlify, or Vercel for deployment to get compatible build and preview configurations

Patterns AI Should Follow in Gatsby

• GraphQL page queries and useStaticQuery for compile-time data fetching from any source
• gatsby-node.js createPages for programmatically generating pages from CMS data or markdown files
• Plugin configuration in gatsby-config.js for source plugins, transformers, and optimization
• GatsbyImage with gatsby-plugin-image for optimized, responsive image handling with blur-up placeholders
• SEO components using the Head API or gatsby-plugin-react-helmet for meta tags and structured data
• gatsby-browser.js wrapPageElement for persistent layout components and global providers

Blog Post Template with GraphQL and SEO

A Gatsby blog post template demonstrating GraphQL page queries, image handling, and SEO metadata.

import * as React from 'react';
import { graphql, HeadFC, PageProps } from 'gatsby';
import { GatsbyImage, getImage } from 'gatsby-plugin-image';
import Layout from '../components/Layout';

type DataProps = {
  markdownRemark: {
    html: string;
    frontmatter: {
      title: string;
      date: string;
      description: string;
      featuredImage: {
        childImageSharp: {
          gatsbyImageData: any;
        };
      };
    };
    timeToRead: number;
  };
};

export default function BlogPost({ data }: PageProps<DataProps>) {
  const { frontmatter, html, timeToRead } = data.markdownRemark;
  const image = getImage(frontmatter.featuredImage);

  return (
    <Layout>
      <article>
        <h1>{frontmatter.title}</h1>
        <p>{frontmatter.date} · {timeToRead} min read</p>
        {image && <GatsbyImage image={image} alt={frontmatter.title} />}
        <div dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{ __html: html }} />
      </article>
    </Layout>
  );
}

export const Head: HeadFC<DataProps> = ({ data }) => (
  <>
    <title>{data.markdownRemark.frontmatter.title}</title>
    <meta name="description" content={data.markdownRemark.frontmatter.description} />
  </>
);

export const query = graphql`
  query BlogPost($slug: String!) {
    markdownRemark(fields: { slug: { eq: $slug } }) {
      html
      timeToRead
      frontmatter {
        title
        date(formatString: "MMMM DD, YYYY")
        description
        featuredImage {
          childImageSharp {
            gatsbyImageData(width: 800, placeholder: BLURRED)
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
`;

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