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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 bryik »

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 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

I had a similar problem and solved it with Forestry[0] and Netlify. Forestry has a nice web interface for writing posts; saving causes the changes to be committed to a GitHub repo. Netlify[1] watches the repo and rebuilds/redeploys the blog.

It sounds a bit complicated, but I've run this setup for 9 months now without any serious issues. To write and publish a new post, all I need to do is: login to Forestry, write the damn thing, and hit "save". The cost is $0.

0 - https://forestry.io/ 1 - https://www.netlify.com/

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

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Post by calcsam »

iamwil wrote: post #40

calcsam: How do you think about defensibility? One might think that because the underlying tech is open source, someone else can also spring up a hosting service. Is that not an issue because agencies would want the official hosting for the open source project because they want the reassurance? Or is it for another reason this isn't an issue?

Interestingly, a lot of open-source companies have built defensible businesses -- a list is over at http://oss.cash. Recent IPOs include Mulesoft, Elastic, Mongo, Fastly...

More specifically to Gatsby, we don't actually see ourselves in the hosting business, more in the "collaboration" business -- most websites have teams of nontechnical folks that are reviewing sites before they go live, creating and editing content, and so on. We're building Gatsby-specific collaboration tooling, starting with CMS Preview.

A good comparison here would be Github -- nobody thinks of Github as "Git hosting", they think of Github as the place where developers collaborate together on projects.

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

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Post by abhiyerra »

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 wrote a ms word transformer for GatsbyJS. I like it because it lets me add images and stuff and generates the content without having to muck with urls etc.

https://github.com/abhiyerra/gatsby-transformer-ms-word

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

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Post by nine_k »

mattkevan wrote: post #50

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…

If Gatsby did not feel different and not offered what Jekyll / Hugo / Zola offer, what would be the point?

If existing solutions are near perfect for you, you are not the target audience.

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

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Post by xemoka »

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 could use gitlab pages + netlify cms + gatsby; The Gatsby docs have an example: https://www.gatsbyjs.org/docs/sourcing-from-netlify-cms/

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

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Post by mieseratte »

nine_k wrote: post #54
mattkevan wrote: post #50

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…

If Gatsby did not feel different and not offered what Jekyll / Hugo / Zola offer, what would be the point? If existing solutions are near perfect for you, you are not the target audience.

What itch is Gatsby scratching?

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

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Post by k__ »

mattkevan wrote: post #50

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…

Yes, Gatsby even seems to be controversal in the React eco-system.

Next.js is less opinionated.

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

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Post by grrowl »

mattkevan wrote: post #50

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…

Gatsby was great until Next came along and took its crown
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