As Gatsby continues to be used for building larger and more complex sites, we are constantly asking our users and the community how we could improve. Among professional Gatsby developers, we tend to hear less about specific bugs and feature requests and more about qualities they want and need in their site -- faster load times, shorter publish times, and so on.

Gatsby Recipes help automate common site building tasks like automate package and plugin installation. Recipes can even generate pages and code! In his Gatsby Days presentation Sam Julien, Senior Developer Advocate Engineer at Auth0, walks viewers through building a Recipe to automatically set up authentication in a Gatsby site.

A common challenge while building apps is setting up authentication. In this video, Jason Lengstorf and Ado Kukic build a Gatsby app using Auth0 to create a login-protected dashboard.