Comment by epolanski

Surprised this is comment is not higher. Gatsby was one of the worst technologies I have worked with in my long career of working with various JS libraries and frameworks. Im sure the team is smart and capable, but I would not be advertising their work with Gatsby.

Same experience, I had the exact same thought. Was new to react and had to make a website… big mistake, wasted so many hours untangling the regex and hacks keeping together Gatsby over the next few years until that website was retired.

Gatsby never made sense to me. Weird design decisions I couldn’t find any plausible reason for. As soon as Next.js became capable of doing SSG I convinced my team to abandon Gatsby. Definitely a minus, sorry.

gatsby was one of the first static react frameworks, now you have things like nextjs remix astro etc... i dont think abandonware is fair, thats just the way software goes

The character Gatsby didn't function very well either (as far as being a successful person goes, I quite liked the book and he functioned well as a character) :)

However, the Gatsby CMS had a couple of things that were really interesting about it - especially runtime type safety through GraphQL and doing headless WordPress.