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by alphachloride 2219 days ago
I agree. The website is constricting its audience.

Gatsby is a static[1] site generator of sorts. It compiles your source code/text into a HTML site at design time. So you don't have to rely on setting up a database and server for your website. It is not quite like other static site generators like Hugo or Jekyll. They use markdown files which are compiled to HTML. Gatsby instead uses javascript files with functions that return HTML that is rendered as a page. By using a programming language to define web pages, the designer gets some flexibility when creating a static site.

It is different from a dynamic[2] hosting application like Wordpress where you have a database entry which is queried and rendered into a page at run time.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_web_page [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_web_page

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So this is exactly it. Reading this 'I get it'.

A variation of what you wrote that should be on the landing page.