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by tomnipotent 2217 days ago
It helps if you think of Gatsby as part of the "Headless" architecture, which presupposes that your app/website is just a veneer on top of other 3rd party tools/SaaS.

So if you're an e-commerce business using Shopify, Contentful, and Algolia, then Gatsby is actually a very nice fit. You could do all of this in Next.js, but you'd be dealing with server-side proxying to the SaaS tools and all that goes with that (e.g. service downtime, adding 100ms+ latency to each request, caching etc.)