I tried Gatsby and decided it wasn’t for me - but in case I want to revisit it - here’s what I did.

Install NVM https://github.com/creationix/nvm#installation

NB I don’t like running curl | bash so I download the script review it and then run it - that way I can sanity check that it does what I expect

use nvm to install a recent version of node

nvm install 10

Now install gatsby

https://www.gatsbyjs.org/docs/quick-start

npm install --global gatsby-cli

Create a new site.

gatsby new gatsby-site

Change directories into site folder.

cd gatsby-site

Start development server.

gatsby develop

Gatsby will start a hot-reloading development environment accessible by default at localhost:8000.

Edit some pages

Create a production build.

gatsby build

I tested these via a local Apache but you can also serve via Gatsby using

gatsby serve

When happy push to production.