Why Gatsby?
Prerequisite
- React
- GraphQL (You can also read from the Gatsby Docs)
Consider to use Gatsby if:
- You want to create your personal blog.
- You want to create a website for a company, foundation, agency, meetup, group, organization that seldom update contents.
- You are going to use a static site generator.
- You don't want to backup a database and image files.
- You don't want to pay for a hosting/database/CDN and pay only for domain name.
- For public repository, you can use GitHub Pages.
- For private repository, you can use Cloudflare Workers.
- You want to create Progressive Web Apps (PWA).
- You want to work with a new technologies out of the box without any extra setup, e.g.
- TypeScript
- Sass
- GraphQL is ready to use and no addition setup. All .md, image, YAML files and other assets are exposed as GraphQL resources that you can query to construct a new page in a website.
- React Hook
- Hot reload to see an update result immediately
- You like Markdown and want to use MDX which supports React component inside .mdx file.
- A lot of plugin that easily setup and use to enable rich contents to Gatsby site, e.g.
- Mermaid
- GraphViz
- Git history information
- More plugins https://www.gatsbyjs.com/plugins
- You want to start with many free themes/starter https://www.gatsbyjs.com/starters/.
- Easy to setup with GitHub Actions for continuous delivery.
Gatsby isn't suitable if:
- The web admin is not a developer. To modify the content or design, it requires programming skills.
- You want the admin control panel to modify the content.
- Your content will be changed quite often, it's more difficult to modify content than using the admin control panel.
- If you want to update the content on a mobile or public computer, it might be not convenient. The computer requires specific tools such as an editor, git command, etc.
- You rely on traditional technologies like basic HTML and CSS renderer tools. Other tools will be suitable for you such as:
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