Cosmic JS is a headless content management service or CMS, which handles storage / creation / modification of resources. So for a blog you might have 2 resources: Authors and Blog Posts. As an admin of a blog you would log into Cosmic JS and create an Author with some details, and then create a Blog Post with whatever content you want in your post. Gatsby is a static site generator, building HTML / CSS / JS files based on whatever node / react logic you provide it. So Cosmic JS is just a solution for managing the resources that Gatsby uses to build your static web site files. Every time a blog post is created, Gatsby fetches all data required for the pages it needs to display, then builds those static files are served to the end user.

This is a static generated site. Gatsby is a static site generator, Cosmic JS is simply storage for your documentation content Gatsby is used to automatically build static site files based on what is stored in your bucket on Cosmic JS.

Hello! My name is Jacob and I am a Web Developer and programming Instructor at Code Fellows . I currently write lots and lots of Javascript as my day job has me publishing a fair amount of React components. I also enjoy programming in Python for passion projects and have wrote a fair amount of Java as a student. As a full stack Javascript programmer I also write a lot of Node JS modules and very much enjoy the Node environment and the npm community. I am a passionate gamer and love studying / writing / reading about game design from a psychological and technical perspective. One of my goals as a developer is to create a novel video game completely (mostly) from scratch. I love working on new and exciting projects / technologies. Feel free to say hello and chat me up :)