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Gatsby is a JavaScript front-end framework that has Node.js, GraphQL, and React.js under the hood. Gatsby allows developers to build websites and progressive web apps using a modern and efficient development environment. Gatsby is often called a static website generator. That said it renders HTML pages that outperform regular static websites in loading speed and interactivity.
What is Gatsby JS used for?
Gatsby is good for creating blogs, portfolios, marketing pages, corporate and eCommerce websites that require blazing-fast page load time, rich user experience, and proper SEO optimization. Gatsby works best for small and middle-size projects under 500 pages.
How to use Gatsby.js?
You can use Gatsby to build a website from scratch or supercharge your existing website. The framework uses plugins to integrate with content and eCommerce platforms, such as WordPress, Contentful, or Shopify. To implement Gatsby, you’ll need a developer that has React and GraphQL in their skill set.
What does Gatsby.js do?
Gatsby renders web app views at build time and turns them into static HTML files. The framework uses GraphQL to pool data from the resources you have – CMSs, CRMs, databases, CSV files, or third-party APIs – and creates an own content mesh. Then it runs React on the Node.js server to fill the content into page templates and fetches the final HTML pages. Also, Gatsby compresses and optimizes images and other content. As a result, when users land on the website, they interact with pre-built pages that load very fast.
Is Gatsby good for SEO?
One of the reasons many companies use Gatsby is creating SEO-friendly websites. The framework improves search engine optimization in three ways. First, pre-rendering guarantees that Google bot and other crawlers can process and index content. Second, with Gatsby’s React Helmet plugin, you can generate unique metadata for each page and add structured data in JSON-LD format for featured snippets. Third, Gatsby ensures a fast loading speed, which is required for your pages to rank high.
When not to use Gatsby.js?
Gatsby is not the best option to choose when you need to build a large website and change the content several times a week. With Gatsby, every change in content would require building and deploying a new version of the website. It’s not a problem for a small website that takes minutes to build. However, the larger the website is, the longer it takes to build and fix issues that arise during the build time. The development process may be inefficient due to long build times. For such cases, using the Next.js framework would be a good alternative.
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