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epolanski 3 days ago

By the developers of Gatsby is a minus, not a plus makes me think this is going to be the next abandonware.

paultannenbaum 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

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.

christina97 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

squillion 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

user9999999999 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

mplewis 3 days ago | parent [-]

The Gatsby team made a lot of promises upon which they didn't follow through. Not a great way to build confidence in your next big project.

DSchau 3 days ago | parent [-]

… such as?

benatkin 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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.

epolanski 2 days ago | parent [-]

Interesting, because GQL was the most divisive thing of Gatsby.