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by schnebbau 1237 days ago
People still use Gatsby?
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I know this comment is a joke but in a big production environment, you eventually have to commit to a tech/stack. You can't just change everything every 2 years when a new hotness comes.
I don't know about you but we change stacks and go on massive rewrites of frameworks and code every two years to stay busy. /s
I do. I find it better to have the information that I want as static generated in a graphql environment so I can query it wherever I want in the application. Next.js has some "inflexible" rules for the static generated content gathering. For dynamic content both are good.
Oh, what's wrong with it? It looked nice and was considering using it for a marketing site.
It's pretty tightly coupled to webpack and has a reputation for being extremely slow to rebuild a site. Fine for small sites but I've heard of painful multiple minute long rebuild cycles for large sites with a lot of content.
They give you really nice incremental builds out of the box, which are particularly easy to set up with gatsby cloud (the actual purchase here). Their abstractions are more opinionated, but a lot more "just works" off the shelf with configuration instead of coding.
This - what I wanted was the incremental builds. Also lots of nice starter templates. I have a custom framework I created for incrementally built docs sites for FastComments - but in the future I was looking into Gatsby for marketing/doc sites.

I am not really a NextJS fan. WordPress is an option but I like having the docs in version control.

Hugo?