# What is Gatsby?

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### Today, we will cover:

- ***What is Gatsby?***
- ***What does Gatsby do?***
- ***What can I do with Gatsby?***
- ***Why Gatsby?***
- ***Gatsby VS Netlify***

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### 1 - What is Gatsby?

**[Gatsby](https://www.gatsbyjs.com/)** is a **fast and flexible framework that makes building websites with any CMS, API, or database fun again**. Which pretty much *does the same* thing as **Netlify**, which is **"Hosting a website"**. Nevertheless, remember that it is free! But *there are paid plans*, *too*.

Let's divide this section into three:

- ***Framework***

- ***Cloud***

- ***Concierge***

### 1.1 - What is Gatsby? - (Framework)

Regarding **framework**, **Gatsby** is a full-stack frontend framework that comes with everything you need out of the box.

### 1.2 - What is Gatsby? - (Cloud)

The relationship between **Gatsby** and the *cloud*, it is a unified cloud platform for building, previewing, and deploying your Gatsby projects.

### 1.3 - What is Gatsby? - (Concierge)

**Gatsby point of view is also to focus on concierge, their expert services that are tailored to help your team get the most out of your Gatsby deployment.**

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### 2 - What does Gatsby do?

As we said, **Gatsby** is a hosting platform. But the point which makes **Gatsby** more better, is that it makes all the hardest parts of building the web, *a little much more easier*. Nevertheless, they cover a lot of things. **Performance. SEO. Security. Integrations. Accessibility. Gatsby got it covered for you**.

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### 3 - What can I do with Gatsby?

Gatsby is an open-source static website generator (SSG) that is based on the frontend development framework React and makes use of Webpack and GraphQL technology. It can be used to **build static sites that are progressive web apps, follow the latest web standards, and optimized for speed and security.**

Nevertheless, it can also can be used to **build static sites that are Progressive Web Apps, follow the latest web standards, and are optimized to be highly performant**. It makes use of the latest and popular technologies including ReactJS, Webpack, GraphQL, modern ES6+ JavaScript and CSS.

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### 4 - Why Gatsby?

**Gatsby** as we said is an hosting platform for websites. As the competition is high, *each hosting platform try's to make points which differs each hosting platform **than the other***.

**So why to use Gatsby and not something else?**

- ***60% Faster Page Load Speed***

- ***10x Faster Build Times***

- ***100% Faster Content Creation***

- ***They cover >> Performance, SEO, Security, Integrations, and Accessibility for you***

- ***Performance that's off the charts***

- ***Security out of the box***

- ***Scalability you can count on***

- ***Accessibility for everyone***

- ***Fast to Build, Run, and Deliver***

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### 5 - Gatsby VS Netlify

Comparison between **Gatsby VS Netlify**:

| **Feature** | *Netlify* | *Gatsby* |
|---|---|---|
| Infrastructure | Multi-cloud | AWS |
| Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) |
| Continuous deployment | ✅ | ✅ |
| Automated builds from Git | ✅ | ✅ |
| Instant rollbacks to any version | ✅ | ❌ |
| Site previews for every push | ✅ | ✅ |
| Compatible with all Static Site Generators | ✅ | ❌ |
| Notifications | Slack, email, GitHub, outgoing webhook | Slack, GitHub, outgoing webhook |
| Team Management | ✅ | N/A |
| Custom Domains | ✅ | ✅ |
| Automatic HTTPS | ✅ | ✅ |
| Rewrites & Redirects | ✅ | ✅ |
| Password Protection | Paid Plan Only | Paid Plan Only |
| **Free Tier** |
| Websites | *Unlimited* | *Unlimited* |
| Build minutes | 300 minutes/month | N/A |
| Concurrent builds | 1 | 1 |
| Bandwidth | 100 GB/month | 100 GB/month |
| Team Members | 1 | 1 |
| Build Time Per Deployment | 30 minutes | 60 minutes |
| Build Memory Limit (in MiB) | 2048 MiB | 1024 MiB |

*Sorry, but I tried listing most things I could.*

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