What is Gatsby?
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Today, we will cover:
- What is Gatsby?
- What does Gatsby do?
- What can I do with Gatsby?
- Why Gatsby?
- Gatsby VS Netlify
1 - What is Gatsby?
Gatsby is a fast and flexible framework that makes building websites with any CMS, API, or database fun again. Which pretty much does the same thing as Netlify, which is "Hosting a website". Nevertheless, remember that it is free! But there are paid plans, too.
Let's divide this section into three:
Framework
Cloud
Concierge
1.1 - What is Gatsby? - (Framework)
Regarding framework, Gatsby is a full-stack frontend framework that comes with everything you need out of the box.
1.2 - What is Gatsby? - (Cloud)
The relationship between Gatsby and the cloud, it is a unified cloud platform for building, previewing, and deploying your Gatsby projects.
1.3 - What is Gatsby? - (Concierge)
Gatsby point of view is also to focus on concierge, their expert services that are tailored to help your team get the most out of your Gatsby deployment.
2 - What does Gatsby do?
As we said, Gatsby is a hosting platform. But the point which makes Gatsby more better, is that it makes all the hardest parts of building the web, a little much more easier. Nevertheless, they cover a lot of things. Performance. SEO. Security. Integrations. Accessibility. Gatsby got it covered for you.
3 - What can I do with Gatsby?
Gatsby is an open-source static website generator (SSG) that is based on the frontend development framework React and makes use of Webpack and GraphQL technology. It can be used to build static sites that are progressive web apps, follow the latest web standards, and optimized for speed and security.
Nevertheless, it can also can be used to build static sites that are Progressive Web Apps, follow the latest web standards, and are optimized to be highly performant. It makes use of the latest and popular technologies including ReactJS, Webpack, GraphQL, modern ES6+ JavaScript and CSS.
4 - Why Gatsby?
Gatsby as we said is an hosting platform for websites. As the competition is high, each hosting platform try's to make points which differs each hosting platform than the other.
So why to use Gatsby and not something else?
60% Faster Page Load Speed
10x Faster Build Times
100% Faster Content Creation
They cover >> Performance, SEO, Security, Integrations, and Accessibility for you
Performance that's off the charts
Security out of the box
Scalability you can count on
Accessibility for everyone
Fast to Build, Run, and Deliver
5 - Gatsby VS Netlify
Comparison between Gatsby VS Netlify:
| Feature | Netlify | Gatsby |
| Infrastructure | Multi-cloud | AWS |
| Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) | ||
| Continuous deployment | ✅ | ✅ |
| Automated builds from Git | ✅ | ✅ |
| Instant rollbacks to any version | ✅ | ❌ |
| Site previews for every push | ✅ | ✅ |
| Compatible with all Static Site Generators | ✅ | ❌ |
| Notifications | Slack, email, GitHub, outgoing webhook | Slack, GitHub, outgoing webhook |
| Team Management | ✅ | N/A |
| Custom Domains | ✅ | ✅ |
| Automatic HTTPS | ✅ | ✅ |
| Rewrites & Redirects | ✅ | ✅ |
| Password Protection | Paid Plan Only | Paid Plan Only |
| Free Tier | ||
| Websites | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Build minutes | 300 minutes/month | N/A |
| Concurrent builds | 1 | 1 |
| Bandwidth | 100 GB/month | 100 GB/month |
| Team Members | 1 | 1 |
| Build Time Per Deployment | 30 minutes | 60 minutes |
| Build Memory Limit (in MiB) | 2048 MiB | 1024 MiB |
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