Converting Jupyter Notebooks into blog posts with Gatsby

Jupyter Notebooks offer a dynamic environment by combining Markdown and code, which makes them ideal for research and learning, and their capability to generate HTML documents allows them to be shared online as static pages. The process of converting a Jupyter Notebook into a static webpage can be automated using GatsbyJS, a popular static site generator that easily sources data from different formats. While the gatsby-transformer-ipynb plugin exists to facilitate this conversion, it lacks maintenance and customization, leading the author to create a custom version to meet specific needs. The guide details setting up a Gatsby project to convert .ipynb files into static HTML pages, using GraphQL for data querying, and incorporating additional metadata for each post. The process involves configuring the Gatsby plugin, querying data, and creating pages with React components, with room for further improvements in styling, dynamic content handling, and metadata management.