Groking redwood

100% agree.

I recently set up my first Gatsby site, and doing so I went through their tutorial. It’s very thorough, even going so far as helping you install node, git, going through code editors, etc. But even they thought it would be too much to explain/teach GraphQL, so they link out to an external tutorial about that

NOTE: Gatsby’s data layer is powered by GraphQL. For an in-depth tutorial on GraphQL, we recommend How to GraphQL.

Part 4: Query for Data with GraphQL | Gatsby

Yes you can. I did :slight_smile:

Yes, a lot of Googling requried…

I love this part of the tutorial, I referenced back to it several times. Very good :+1:
And yes, it does reference both Apollo and Prisma, but even so I first didn’t understand what was used for what. I think a visual diagram would have been helpful to me.

Yes! This would have been perfect. And I agree about the labels, that’s what I’m afraid would happen too.

I think links at the start of the tutorial, and at the end of the tutorial would both be helpful

Before tutorial:
“Make sure you’re familiar with these things before starting”

  • link 1
  • link 2

and

After tutorial:
“Read this if you want to know even more and dig deeper”

  • link 1
  • link 2

I just found their SpaceX tutorial earlier today and have started working though it. It does look very good so far!

I think Redwood is in a bit of a unique situation in that it does so much! So naturally there are a lot of things to explain. We can’t possibly include full tutorials for React, Apollo, Prisma, Netlify Functions, TailwindCSS (or whatever styling thing to use) etc.

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