It was announced today that Netlify has acquired Gatsby Inc.
Netlify coined the term Jamstack and inspired an ecosystem. Gatsby tried to compete, but today Netlify announced it has acquired the company.
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What do you think this means for...
They paint it as if devs just looove netlify...and i mean i have one site running on a free account there, but i could just as easily move it to digital ocean in like five minutes.
And i literally don't know a single dev who uses them regularly except for newbies putting test/sample sites on there as they're learning to build JS sites for the first time.
I'm pretty sure everyone moves to other services when they go to launch their production sites.
Gatsby, meh, not a fan, but that's just personal preference.
"Composable Web" is another nonsense marketing phrase, i'm sure it will be popping up all over the place next year because of this.
In the end, the best websites run on javascript frontends talking to endpoints/servers/urls/API [whatever you call em, they're all the same thing]
with data in some sort of database, be it relational or document based.
Sure you can go with old school server side rendered pages, but have fun rebuilding a 200000 page site every night and clearing that cache because someone wants one line changed on the menu. I'll happily use sites that leverage caching data and allow some queries to run live using high speed database services instead.
To each their own.
i have one site running on a free account there, but i could just as easily move it to digital ocean in like five minutes
When you have automatic deployment and Netlify Forms and many order features hooked up, migration would need more than five minutes.
You don't need to love Netlify, but their open source contributions are definitely good for the future of the web. They sponsor a lot of great projects. I really don't think that there will be many changes.
I have used netlify but yeah there are some good ones out there. But still i think gatsbyjs is one of the good which i have used. And coincidentally i recently posted about gatsby too 😅. You can check it from here dev.to/varshithvhegde/what-and-why...
Interesting, why does Netlify need Gatsby? 🤔 Like, to mirror the Vercel/Next pair?
Netlify is cool FWIW, maybe they’ll make Gatsby cool again as well 👍
I was never a fan of Netlify. So, don't know about that. However, I really like Vercel + Next.js ecosystem.