115: Jason Lengstorf - Gatsby for Skeptics
In this episode, Adam talks to Jason Lengstorf about Gatsby, and why using React and GraphQL to build something even as simple as a blog is not as crazy of an idea as it sounds.
Topics include:
- How Gatsby is more than just a static site generator
- How you create pages with Gatsby and how it's more powerful than traditional static site generators
- The benefits of having a unified data access layer for all of your content
- How to build dynamic applications with Gatsby
- Why Gatsby is actually faster than static HTML
- How Gatsby makes performance best practices easy
- Gatsby themes and why they are more exciting than traditional CMS themes
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