- Login to https://console.cloud.google.com/
- Create a project (take note of project's ID)
- Enable billing
- Go to https://console.cloud.google.com/compute/instances
- Create a VM instance
- Name: use a semantic name (take note of instance's name)
- Region and zone: most local
- Machine type: smallest possible f1-micro
permalink https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby/blob/ffd8b2d691c995c760fe380769852bcdb26a2278/packages/gatsby/src/bootstrap/index.js
- open and validate gatsby-config (get-config-file.js) 1.5 load themes (swyx added this note July 2019)
- load plugins (load-plugins/index.js) from the list given in
gatsby-config.js
- onPreBootstrap: runs
onPreBootstrap
if it is implemented in any plugins, for example gatsby-plugin-typography. Receives handy [apiCallArgs](https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby/blob/ffd8b2d691c9