How to include local javascript on a Gatsby page?

Question

I\'m a total React newbie and I guess there is something fundamental I don\'t quite understand here. A default Gatsby page looks like this. Is there a way to use a local .js

Answer 1

After several hours of frustration I finally stumbled upon discussion on GitHub that solved this for me. In Gatsby, there is a thing called static folder, for which one use case is including a small script outside of the bundled code.

Anyone else in the same situation, try proceeding as follows:

1. Create a folder static to the root of your project.

2. Put your script script.js in the folder static.

3. Include the script in your react dom with react-helmet.

So in the case of the code I posted in my original question, for instance:

import React from "react"
import Helmet from "react-helmet"
import { withPrefix, Link } from "gatsby"

import Layout from "../components/layout"
import Image from "../components/image"
import SEO from "../components/seo"

const IndexPage = () => (