Netlify Acquires Gatsby, Its Struggling Jamstack Competitor
Why would anyone use a react app to create a static site is beyond me. I kind of get the “why” - componentizing everything + the creators were react experts but the level of overengineering and brittleness still blow my mind.
Guess Vercel is grabbing a lot of market/mindshares past year or so.
I haven't looked at Gatsby for a few years, but I always felt it was too complicated for a static site generator.
And it required you to learn/use GraphQL, which isn't bad per-se, but GraphQL also hasn't achieved the mindshare that might have seemed likely when Gatsby was born. That, as much as anything, might be a cause of their adoption issues.
With NextJS and Astro covering my needs, I haven't given Gatsby a thought in a while.