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Gatsby
Gatsby is an open source React-based static site generator that builds pages ahead of time from content sources like CMSs and Markdown, producing fast, pre-rendered websites.
What Gatsby is used for
Gatsby is used for content-driven websites: marketing sites, blogs, documentation, and campaign pages. At build time it pulls content from sources such as headless CMSs, Markdown files, or APIs through a unified GraphQL data layer, then outputs static HTML that can be served from a CDN. A large plugin ecosystem handles images, SEO metadata, and CMS integrations. Gatsby was acquired by Netlify, and while its momentum has slowed in favor of Next.js and Astro for new builds, many production sites still run on it.
Why it matters for business software
Pre-rendered static sites are fast, cheap to host, and hard to take down, since there is no server to overload or compromise for the core pages. For marketing teams, Gatsby's headless CMS integrations let editors publish content without developer involvement while the site keeps its performance characteristics. Organizations with existing Gatsby sites face a practical decision: continue maintaining them, which remains viable, or migrate to a more actively evolving framework when a redesign is due.
How Wizcoder AI Labs uses it
We maintain existing Gatsby sites and handle migrations from Gatsby to Next.js when clients want a more active ecosystem. For new content sites we typically recommend Next.js or a CMS-based approach such as WordPress, depending on who will manage the content.
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