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> Are you equally excited about Gatsby and Jekyll(/Hugo/Pelican)? Gatsby, Jekyll and Hugo are all in roughly the same category of static site generators. However. The exciting thing about Hugo is how incredibly fast it builds. The exciting thing about Gatsby is how ridiculously pleasant it is to work with for a modern frontend developer. It has hot module replacement, built in (so you don't need to reload the page to…
I think Jekyll's entire advantage at this point is it's integration with GitHub pages.
With about one line in the config file you can have Gatsby integrate with GitHub pages seamlessly :-)