Announcing Gatsby 2.0.0

I hadn't heard of this before but it looks really good. Good documentation, lots of plugins and community support, and appears to be in use by some big companies. Anyone here had good or bad experiences with it?

I built a landing page for a nonprofit I'm involved in [1] with Gatsby v2 (while it was in beta/rc), with close to no knowledge of the Webpack and React ecosystems. It's been fairly pleasant to work with, and I look forward to building more sites with it and contributing back where I can!

It was also fun to see my site achieve 100% with ease on Chrome's Lighthouse tests. I still have no idea what kind of impact it has on SEO, but every little bit helps.

Thanks to all who contributed!

[1] https://cu.sg

I am starting to do my blog with it and so far it's really good. One thing I love is how it is built to be a Progressive Web App. If you don't know what that is: after downloading your page, your browser will start to download the other pages of your website automatically so they will be able to render instantly. It's also amazing for documentation. You go on one page and the other pages will be preloaded so that means that even without network you can still browse all the pages and again with rendering instantly. Go on their website and check in the Chrome DevTool in Network, you will see.

Another thing I like is how they leverage GraphQL. I am not a fan to use it as a back end language but for a query tool existing only on the front it all makes sense and it's really effective. You can easily build query to generate all kind of pages and contents automatically. And that from all kind of sources (markdown, CSV).

There are many other great stuff like their source/transform plugin to be able to query on any (if the plugin is made) source.[1] Or having to only learn 2 API call (onCreateNode, onCreatePage) and GraphQL to start to do many of the biggest things... Or I can talk about how when building the project Gatsby makes all the call to any headless CMS to retrieve all the data to leverage them while still being able to create a static website at the same time...[2]

Finally Netlify provides a dead simple way to host your project. You just need to create an account and link your Github repo on their platform and every time your master will change your website will be automatically deployed. Ho and it's free...

[1] https://www.gatsbyjs.org/docs/source-plugin-tutorial/

[2] https://www.gatsbyjs.org/docs/wordpress-source-plugin-tutori...

We're building cloud products which complement the OSS product.

We launched our product, Gatsby Preview, into alpha in July https://www.gatsbyjs.org/blog/2018-07-17-announcing-gatsby-p...

A lot of people really love building sites with headless CMSs and Gatsby. Gatsby Preview gives content editors live preview of changes they're making in the CMS on a real version of the site.

We launched with support for Contentful and are adding support for other headless CMSs along with traditional CMSs running in headless mode like Drupal and WordPress.

Also check out our launch blog post https://www.gatsbyjs.org/blog/2018-05-24-launching-new-gatsb...