GatsbyJS Review

Nice post.

> I’d also love to see a future where we can just plug in a normal image tag and have all those image processing features out of the box.

This would be great. Currently, headless CMSs are doing this pretty well (for example, Sanity: https://www.sanity.io/docs/presenting-images) but I could see tools like Gatsby offering that too.

> I don’t see Gatsby offering much of a value proposition to people hoping to use it commercially, but I think that paradigm shifts, like PWA becoming a standard that customers will begin to demand from their sites or an increase in the popularity of Gatsby themes leading to a much faster development workflows, could easily help Gatsby overcome some of the competitors it is facing in various areas.

Your points about NextJS are valid but I think there is plenty of room for a few different static site generators to live and thrive in the ecosystem. Even if the differences are small and you can do the same thing on multiple platforms I for one hope we have multiple platforms competing and doing well, the competition will lead to faster innovation and ultimately better tooling for developers.