Comment by Vijay Thirugnanam on "How do you learn / evolve with Gatsby? 🤨"

CommentHow do you learn / evolve with Gatsby? 🤨

Vijay Thirugnanam

Inference Service @ Cerebras

Mar 27, 2019

I like and don't like Gatsby. If I don't have any other work, other than working with Gatsby or Next, then I prefer Gatsby. But if I have options, for example, to build a B2B dynamic app using plain React, then I prefer that.

In general, I like it when I do custom development and don't like it when I have to work with integrating with other products, apis, frameworks.

There are very few use cases (only handful of companies capable of raising Series A and beyond) who can afford custom React development, the kind of work that I like.

Henrique Cavalieri

Trying to collaboratively create a better web for users and devs alike

Mar 27, 2019

Interesting take, Vijay Thirugnanam... What exactly are your reasons for disliking Gatsby? Is it too restrictive on your workflow?

And what are your hurdles when integrating Gatsby apps with other products, APIs and frameworks?

Rob Blake

Open Web Wrangler

Mar 30, 2019

I'm learning Gatsby myself, after years of building websites with WordPress.

I've found the learning curve to be quite steep, but that's partly because I'm learning Javascript at the same time.

A good look through the various Gatsby Starters is helpful. It's really useful to install them locally and then browse the source code, making changes to see how it affects the page in the browser.

I've cherry picked various bits of functionality that I like from different starters and attempted to bring them over into my own project.

Jacob Cavazos (Jake)

Development Operations Engineer & Cloud Architect

May 7, 2019

I find the community to be excellent.

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