Gatsby JS & Prismic: Build RAPID Gatsby sites [Gatsby.js v4] (Udemy.com)
Gatsby JS & Prismic. Use Prismic headless CMS data in Gatsby to generate Gatsby.js static sites & deploy to Gatsby cloud
Created by: Tom Phillips
Last updated October 2026
What you will learn
- Increase your value and improve your knowledge as a front-end / React JS developer
- Learn Gatsby
- Create a static, server-compiled, content-driven website using Gatsby JS (with React JS & GraphQL)
- Learn how to use GraphQL and GraphiQL in Gatsby to query data stored in Prismic CMS
- Deploy your Gatsby JS static website and rebuild whenever our Prismic content changes using Netlify
- Use Netlify forms from within Gatsby to capture user's email address and personal details
How it compares
Against the other 173 rated Udemy courses in React on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.4 out of 5higher than 38% of them
- Reviews113#158 of 174 by number of reviews
- Length2.8 hoursshorter than 94% of them
- Last updatedOctober 2026more recently than 100% of them
Course Description
Do you want to improve your React JS skills and increase your value as a front-end developer?
- "Gatsby lets you build blazing fast sites with your data, whatever the source. Liberate your sites from legacy CMSs and fly into the future."
In this course we'll be building a Gatsby site from a Prismic CMS data source!
Level-up your React skillset by learning Gatsby.js with a Prismic CMS backend! Gatsby JS uses React JS and GraphQL to generate and build static pages from a given dataset. This course will look at setting up Prismic as a headless CMS while using GatsbyJS to generate a blazing-fast server-rendered React website from Prismic data, such as pages, menus, media, (and more!) using GraphQL to query that data.
We'll be creating a landing page website in this course, looking at initial setup and development of Gatsby JS and Prismic locally, creating React components in Gatsby based on Prismic data, and querying Prismic data with GraphQL to automatically generate our static pages.
No landing page is complete without a contact form so we'll be creating a dynamic contact page in Gatsby where we can update our form fields within Prismic and use formspree to capture our user's email address and various other details.
We'll look at how we can query Prismic data with GraphQL using the GraphiQL browser tool. Once we're familiar and comfortable developing with GatsbyJS and Prismic, we'll progress onto setting up and deploying a live website using Gatsby cloud that re-builds our static web pages every time we update content in our Prismic backend.
It's recommended you have rudimentary knowledge of React. We'll be covering everything else from Gatsby.js, Prismic, GraphQL, and styled-components!
Speed past the competition with Gatsby!
Gatsby.js builds the fastest possible website. Instead of waiting to generate pages when requested, Gatsby pre-builds pages and lifts them into a global cloud of servers (we'll be using Gatsby cloud for this) - ready to be delivered instantly to your users wherever they are.
Some advantages of using Gatsby include:
No waiting for API responses
No waiting to render components based on requested data
No loading spinners!
No waiting for a server to compile a page to serve to the browser - these pages are already pre-compiled with Gatsby and ready to serve instantly to your users!
We certainly cover a lot in this Gatsby course!
Instructor Details
- 4.4 Rating
113 Reviews
Tom Phillips
Tom is a web developer and instructor with nearly two decades of experience building software and teaching modern development skills.
Today, his focus is on agentic engineering, coding with AI, AI-assisted software development, and modern developer workflows. His courses show developers and technical professionals how to use tools like GitHub Copilot and AI coding agents to plan, build, test, debug, and improve software more effectively.
Rather than treating AI as a simple autocomplete tool, Tom teaches practical agentic coding workflows that reflect how software development is evolving. From working with AI agents and context to using instructions, skills, tools, automation, testing, and modern full-stack development practices.
His courses are fast-paced, practical, and project-based, with a strong focus on real-world skills you can apply immediately. Topics include AI coding, GitHub Copilot, agentic engineering, web development, Next.js, TypeScript, React, and modern software engineering.
Tom regularly updates his courses to keep pace with the rapidly changing AI development landscape, helping learners spend less time sorting through outdated information and more time learning how to build faster and work more effectively with AI.
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Reviews
By Tom Phillips on 10/9/2021
I was still very new to React and didn't know how closely related Gatsby and React were to one another and I still found this class easy to follow. You can do some really great things with Gatsby and Prismic I'm really happy to have taken this course.
By Brian Steele on 2/27/2021
I think this course needs to be updated. The instructions didn't work for me, possibly because of an out-dated plugin. (https://prismic.io/docs/technologies/prismic-gatsby-source-graphql-plugin) My rating is low because of this; if it was up-to-date, I would give it a good rating.
By Bryan Robertson on 1/31/2021
Great for getting up and running Gatsby / Prismic quickly if you already have some experience with React. Moves very quickly, I had video at .75 speed. Not necessarily a bad thing if you want to get up and running asap.
By Jesse Brewer on 11/22/2020
This was a great introduction to Gatsby, Prismic, and Netlify. Following Tom's process was very smooth. This course assumes some knowledge of Gatsby already, as he doesn't go into too many details, but the course was so easy to get through and I feel like I understood the material that was covered. It's definitely inspired me to checkout his other courses, so if you want to learn this stack of technologies, I would highly recommend this course!
By 葉子 岩崎 on 10/13/2020
Sometimes I really need to view the whole of the codes when I get stuck, but it's hard. Except for this, so far, this lecture is well organised and easy to follow. Thrilled to get to know new technology to apply my project. Thank you.
By Marketa Stankova on 7/10/2020
It is a very good course on how to integrate Prismic with GatsbyJS and query data with Graphql. Well explained and informative. Exactly what I expected, a nice introduction to be able to dive into this topic and continue building my project.
By Gabriel Forró on 5/13/2020
The content is clear and focused. The main focus of this course is on the Prismic and its integration in Gatsby. If You are new to Prismic and You consider to find and use a headless CMS in Gatsby, check out this course. The integration does use the Prismic's GraphQL API (not the REST API). The course is not about Gatsby. You can follow without Gatsby knowledge, but You will not learn the essentials of Gatsby. For example images are not optimized through gatsby-image in this course (gatsby-image is not mentioned at all). This is all right however as the main focus is on Prismic and not on Gatsby. Check out a different course, if You want to learn Gatsby. A good one is Tom's another course "Gatsby JS & Firebase: HYBRID Gatsby realtime + static sites".
By Luke Harkess on 4/28/2020
Good course! Quite short but delivers exactly what it said it would, no fluff. Maybe showing an example on how this could be used to build different sites/themes would be good. Sometimes hard (for me) to keep up as they talk very fast.
By Kenichi Nakahara on 4/12/2020
Thank you for amazing course. Prismic is not famous in Japan but I grab how to use it. To the people who have interested in this course: This course requires fundamental of react. If you are not familiar with that, I recommend to study react first. I wil build my own blog by Gatsby with Prismic.
By Leon Stern on 4/3/2020
It's been honestly super helpful and as someone who just started to learn some code I was able to create the website I wanted with Gatsby and Prismic.
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Overall Score : 88 / 100




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