REST APIs in Gatsby at Runtime

Christina Hastenrath
4 min readApr 24, 2020

This is a step-by-step tutorial on how to call external REST APIs in Gatsby at runtime using Axios.

This tutorial assumes you already have a Gatsby App up and running. If you are new to Gatsby, they have a great starter tutorial and documentation.

The Gatsby docs describe how you can add a REST API call in your app at Buildtime. You do this by using the createPages API in the

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Christina Hastenrath

Molecular Biologist turned Software Engineer. I write about my code. Connect with me on Twitter @etTinchen