links.yaml data
michaelsbach opened this issue · comments
Hi, all. I am new to open-source and Gatsby (as well as React to a certain extent) so I apologize if this is out of place.
I am curious as to how the data in data/links.yaml is able to be used in the components/RecentLinks. It seems like "links" is a global variable of some sort, defined by the base keyword "links" in the yaml file. Would this be a feature of Gatsby, or is there maybe a config js folder that itemizes the ENV/global variables?
EDIT: I was also trying to assign this Issue with a label of "question" but I wasn't able to find the button to do that.
Hey @michaelsbach! This is done in a fairly conventional way for a Gatsby site, but its alien if you're new to it. I was recently in your shoes :)
In gatsby-node.js we create the links property
Line 102 in 37df27e
This links property is then accessible in the RecentLinks component. Not global, just passed through.
It's basically this https://www.gatsbyjs.org/tutorial/part-seven/
If you have any questions feel free to start off a PR and see how far you can get, I'll be more than happy to help you out with contributions even if we gotta do some learning on the way!