Comment by Ryosuke on "How do you learn / evolve with Gatsby? 🤨"

Google. Sometimes if I'm lucky I've saved a relevant link in my bookmarks, or Twitter. If I want to learn something new though I check out Jason Lengstorf on YouTube. He does a consistent livestream series where he teams up with developers to do various things with Gatsby, like e-commerce or the new experimental themes. I also recommend following the Gatsby team on Twitter, you'll see them respond to people's questions/edge cases all the time and debug issues publicly.
Page queries vs static queries, and the flow of data through the app. As a dev from previous apps, there were reflexes I had that had to be rewired in the static, GraphQL world that Gatsby lives in. Stuff like querying related posts was tricky, cause you have to query anything with dynamic inputs (like a post ID) on the "server" or page level instead of the component level with a static query. It makes a lot of dumb components, but overly smart pages, and GQL fragments only go so far.
It's been one of the best communities I've seen in OSS in a while. They have a handle down on being friendly, encouraging contributions on any level, and working with you through things. In turn, things like Gatsby's docs end up being fantastic because of the endless user input improving them.

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