Auth
If you want to restrict a page, you can use needsAuth frontmatter on the top of any markdown file. When you set to true, this page will be restricted for private users only.
This authentication is provided by a WeDeploy Auth service that can be set on a .env.production or .env.development file. These files configuration will be explained in the next section.
Progressive Web App support
Gatsby Boilerplate is a Progressive Web App, if you aren't familiar with this term, check this link.
During the development, this boilerplate was battle tested to turns it into a real PWA covering all PWA checklist.
We could personalize our progressive web app manifest file changing the values on Gatsby-config.js file.
PS: this files will be created only in build time when you perform a
gatsby build.
Offline Support
We could personalize what type of files we can cache on Gatsby-config.js file on gatsby-plugin-offline options.
Default extensions are: js,jpg,png,gif,html,css,svg
GZIP compression
If you want to disable the default zopfli plugin to compress our files just remove gatsby-plugin-zopfli on Gatsby-config.js.
Config and enviroment(.env) files
Gatsby uses a standard to define enviroment variables on his code.
You can provide environment variables to your site to customize its behavior in different environments. Gatsby Boilerplate offers two possible files: .env.production which is used to set environment variables on production and .env.development that can be used to set environment variables on development.