Gatsby: Rise of Modern Framework with WordPress By Rutuja Ambekar

About Session

The session emphasizes on how to build your awesome site using Gatsby as a front end and WordPress as a CMS (Content Management System) i.e. back-end. WordPress with its awesome plugins and templates has already paved its path, but now with its an amalgamation with Gatsby you get wholesome results in static site creation.

Being a web developer, we have more alternatives to build a site which always leaves us in vagueness which framework to adopt. As a developer, we always aspire to enhance our tech-stack.

Gatsby being released in 2017 already has countless fans and has proved the world that it’s not just hype. Gatsby is based on React.js, Webpack, as well as other front-end tools and uses GraphQL to feed the website with data, which is the primary cause of people stirring to the static site generators. 

WordPress CMS with its customizable design and easy and user-friendly interface has always been a great option for managing content. It is Open Source and is the first choice for most bloggers, but it can also be successfully used for designing simple websites. These two technologies, Gatsby and WordPress could leverage our experience of website development.

Speaker Information

Rutuja Ambekar is Student, Blogger and Tech enthusiast.

She is a tech enthusiast having a flair for writing. Four years into blogging, she is close to reaching three hundred readers on her blog. She had hands upon several platforms to showcase her creations and finally stumbled on this perfect combination “Gatsby.js + WordPress”. She is playing with Gatsby for front-end and WordPress CMS as a backend for creating a powerful static website.

Rutuja, being a community believer has organized several events and conducted seminars in her university to encourage students towards startup ideation. She is an active attendee and participant in DSC activities.

She is exploring neural networks; especially PixelCNN and RBMs and magenta library of Python for image generation. She also secured the third position in HackerEarth Hackathon which was organized at the district level.  Along with this, she also pitched for her team at the national level competition at IIT Bombay. She also led her team in an intercountry college program where they scaled projects into startups and worked on a website that will be correcting grammar and sentence formation using machine learning tools. She has a team research paper published in Excel India Publications, New Delhi.