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Gatsby raises $15M Series A for its modern web development platform

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Re: Gatsby raises $15M Series A for its modern web development platform

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Post by nihonde »

mmanfrin wrote: post #39

Question tangential to Gatsby for those of you who use such static site builders as blogs: are there any good tools for writing/composing posts or are you all doing it by hand? I have set up the same blog maybe 3 times and I always stop posting because I need to be in my coding environment to do so (and if I'm there, I might as well be working on code). I'd really like to find something that I could use to make a pos…

I’ve got a site that requires non-technical people to post, and I’m looking into using Contentful or Netlify CMS as their content editing UI, which in turn triggers a build and deploy. (I use Middleman but Gatsby should be able to do the same.)

Re: Gatsby raises $15M Series A for its modern web development platform

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Post by dstroot »

mmanfrin wrote: post #39

Question tangential to Gatsby for those of you who use such static site builders as blogs: are there any good tools for writing/composing posts or are you all doing it by hand? I have set up the same blog maybe 3 times and I always stop posting because I need to be in my coding environment to do so (and if I'm there, I might as well be working on code). I'd really like to find something that I could use to make a pos…

You can use wordpress as your CM. Write posts and they appear in your Gatsby site. Contentful is probably a better option though...

https://www.gatsbyjs.com/guides/wordpress/

Re: Gatsby raises $15M Series A for its modern web development platform

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Post by realityking »

mmanfrin wrote: post #39

Question tangential to Gatsby for those of you who use such static site builders as blogs: are there any good tools for writing/composing posts or are you all doing it by hand? I have set up the same blog maybe 3 times and I always stop posting because I need to be in my coding environment to do so (and if I'm there, I might as well be working on code). I'd really like to find something that I could use to make a pos…

Full disclosure: I‘m a Developer Evangelist for Contentful

A “Headless CMS” is one way to achieve what you’re looking to do. Contentful is one, there are others. Gatsby’s has source plugins for all popular ones.

They have a nice getting started guide for Gatsby + Contentful: https://www.gatsbyjs.org/docs/sourcing-from-contentful/

Re: Gatsby raises $15M Series A for its modern web development platform

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Post by realityking »

MuffinFlavored wrote: post #25
applecrazy wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The implication in the sentence is that LAMP is an old open-source stack, whereas Gatsby is new open-source

Linux - Gatsby doesn't run on Linux? Apache - Gatsby doesn't run behind a load balancer (apache/nginx) with proxy_pass? MySql - Gatsby doesn't persist data into a database (MySql/Postgres)? PHP - I'll give you that PHP is out and node.js is in for backend development.

Linux - probably

Apache/Nginx - some web server will be used, though much as likely something more lightweight than Apache. No proxy_pass needed since Gatsby just generates a bunch of files you need to serve

MySQL - probably not unless married with a very complex backend

PHP - yeah that’s out

To understand Gatsby it’s crucial to understand that it’s using a significantly different architecture than traditional LAMP applications and monolithic CMSes

Re: Gatsby raises $15M Series A for its modern web development platform

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Post by callmeed »

mmanfrin wrote: post #39

Question tangential to Gatsby for those of you who use such static site builders as blogs: are there any good tools for writing/composing posts or are you all doing it by hand? I have set up the same blog maybe 3 times and I always stop posting because I need to be in my coding environment to do so (and if I'm there, I might as well be working on code). I'd really like to find something that I could use to make a pos…

I had the same dilemma when I wanted to launch a food blog last year. I ended going with Ghost on a digital ocean $5/mo droplet.

Re: Gatsby raises $15M Series A for its modern web development platform

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Post by arnorhs »

dstroot wrote: post #42
mmanfrin wrote: post #39

Question tangential to Gatsby for those of you who use such static site builders as blogs: are there any good tools for writing/composing posts or are you all doing it by hand? I have set up the same blog maybe 3 times and I always stop posting because I need to be in my coding environment to do so (and if I'm there, I might as well be working on code). I'd really like to find something that I could use to make a pos…

You can use wordpress as your CM. Write posts and they appear in your Gatsby site. Contentful is probably a better option though... https://www.gatsbyjs.com/guides/wordpress/

you can.. though, honestly, i'd advice against wordpress + gatsby. in my experience, because of various plugins required to do various things, the way media is fetched etc, and the highly difficult task of getting things working with schemas in wp.

also, wordpress builds tend to also take the longest.

if you enjoy hacking on wordpress and debugging weird issues, then this might be a good choice.

It's much easier to build a blog using prismic, contentful, or even the netlify cms kind of is nice for a basic "serverless" blog/cms.

honestly, i'd take markdown files in a bunch of folders any day over gatsby-source-wordpress.

Re: Gatsby raises $15M Series A for its modern web development platform

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Post by arnorhs »

nihonde wrote: post #41
mmanfrin wrote: post #39

Question tangential to Gatsby for those of you who use such static site builders as blogs: are there any good tools for writing/composing posts or are you all doing it by hand? I have set up the same blog maybe 3 times and I always stop posting because I need to be in my coding environment to do so (and if I'm there, I might as well be working on code). I'd really like to find something that I could use to make a pos…

I’ve got a site that requires non-technical people to post, and I’m looking into using Contentful or Netlify CMS as their content editing UI, which in turn triggers a build and deploy. (I use Middleman but Gatsby should be able to do the same.)

take a look at prismic as well.. it has some nice features for "normies" .. although it is missing a bunch of nice features from contentful.

Re: Gatsby raises $15M Series A for its modern web development platform

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Post by ben_jones »

The real play must be to take a chunk out of medium right? “Companies that don’t like medium or Wordpress are rolling their own costly solutions, so here we are with the smooth transition”.

The problem is if they want to be profitable they will eventually have to incorporate the bad parts of medium and/or the bad parts of Wordpress and then we’re back to square one with some new minimal open source static site builder. This wheel is exhausting.

Re: Gatsby raises $15M Series A for its modern web development platform

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Post by mattkevan »

Big fan of static site generators and the whole JAMStack idea in general - I use Jekyll extensively - but after building a site with Gatsby, I found it too over-engineered.

React is great, and definitely has its place, but to set up React, GraphQL and all the surrounding tooling just to assemble some text files into a template seems like complexity for the sake of it.

For me, the fun of static sites - after years of building sites with CMSs like Wordpress and Drupal - is that they’re as close as possible to plain HTML, lightning-fast and very simple.

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