[chrisco255]

I mean, it's a great framework if you're building a static web page and you want the flexibility of using React. If you want to serve up dynamic apps with server rendered content, Next.js (also React based) might be a better choice. Or a traditional SPA (as shown in Create React App) is fine for a lot of use cases, too.

[johnsonjo]

I agree with this. Static Blogs with Gatsby are incredible once you get past the mental overhead. I chose before hand to do static sites for my blog just for pricing and security reasons. With Gatsby you can do compile time queries to your static files through GraphQL and display content based off your files and their metadata, this means you can do things like automatic tagging and article’s in series all with mainly markdown files with metadata, the occasional React page, and some js config files.