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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 iliketocomplain »

realityking wrote: post #43
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/

I don't get it: Afaik contentful is a company offering a paid for CMS API, but it isn't a piece of software I can run? But I must be wrong, or people wouldn't recommend this again and again when asked for a CMS. I'd love to try it, where can I find it? Wasn't able to find it on github, npm, Google.

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

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Post by subpixel »

grrowl wrote: post #59
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

When I pitch my boss on Next.js s/he will ask how confident I am that Zeit is going to remain a profitable concern subsidizing active development for years to come.

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

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Post by tomc1985 »

emilsedgh wrote: post #128
tomc1985 wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not OP but the mess that is node and its ecosystem is indeed overly-complicated

Care to elaborate? In what regard?

The other comment does a good job illustrating

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

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Post by fiatjaf »

fiatjaf wrote: post #187

In a dozen of hours I wrote Sitio[1]. Sitio generates static pages with React templates and if wanted they also become alive React components at the client. It has a simple imperative API, no GraphQL, no Webpack, any kind of datasource can be easily plugged (in fact I did plug many). It turns out Gatsby also exposes an imperative API that runs behind its fancy declarative API, and it's very similar to mine. However,…

Worse: all the datasources were provided by plugins written by third-party indie developers working for free (and for that reason they weren't perfect, of course).

What is the core team wasting their time on?

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

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Post by mihaifm »

bryik wrote: post #51
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…

forestry seems like a brilliant project, thanks for sharing!

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

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Post by mihaifm »

abhiyerra wrote: post #53
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

Seems like an ugly hack compared to all the "cool" tech mentioned here. But well done, I'll be the first one to star it!

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

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Post by nwmcsween »

fiatjaf wrote: post #188
nwmcsween wrote: post #76

So alternatively why not a less coupled system? Hasura + hyperapp, etc + ...?

Doesn't generate static pages.

Sarcasm? If not there is nothing stopping you from generating static files using build time queries.

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

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Post by fiatjaf »

nwmcsween wrote: post #207
fiatjaf wrote: post #188

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Doesn't generate static pages.

Sarcasm? If not there is nothing stopping you from generating static files using build time queries.

Are you serious? Then why are you suggesting libraries? Or even languages? There's nothing stopping you from generating static files using machine instructions directly.

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

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Post by fiatjaf »

dplgk wrote: post #197
fiatjaf wrote: post #187

In a dozen of hours I wrote Sitio[1]. Sitio generates static pages with React templates and if wanted they also become alive React components at the client. It has a simple imperative API, no GraphQL, no Webpack, any kind of datasource can be easily plugged (in fact I did plug many). It turns out Gatsby also exposes an imperative API that runs behind its fancy declarative API, and it's very similar to mine. However,…

No webpack is a big win. Thinking Gatsby is this fun & easy thing and then realizing you're going all-in on the current npm/JS insanity is not a good feature.

I have this great badge at the repository: [Webpack free]

https://camo.githubusercontent.com/fdcb107fde40edb15afb7e80f...

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

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Post by nnain »

petra wrote: post #151
csande17 wrote: post #81

I don't really like Gatsby's product, but I've got to admit that their business strategy makes a lot of sense. It's a pretty good three-step approach: 1. Convince the WordPress/enterprise crowd to switch over, both by touting the genuine benefits of static sites (security, scalability, TTFB performance, etc.) and by riding the Cool Kid Front-End Stack hype train. 2. Lock them in with an overly-complicated framework a…

It should be pretty easy to auto-generate static sites from wordpress. Shifter and HardyPress already do so. That gets you all the advantages of static sites, combined with all the advantages of WordPress(ecosystem, tools, affordable labor, easy to use by clients). Their only major limitation is that they generate/"compile" the whole site, and this takes time. But that seems solvable by caching(in most cases) and by…

Interesting, however the price per month to have a useful site running is ~$20/month; there are plenty of free static hosting solutions for Gatsby, which are both fast and quite easy to use.
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