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I can see how you'd have that perception but the term covers a wide swath of use cases. Search engine spam is not nearly the issue it once was. Most SEO pages are created to account for two things: product marketing content cannot contain all the possible terms that people use when searching without becoming unintelligible and data served dynamically through SPAs, especially geographically localized data, is still challenging to expose to search engines even with universal apps.

Glad to hear it! I think Gatsby is fantastic and I'm still looking for other projects to use it on. I love how unobtrusive the framework part of it is, feels like just writing a vanilla react/redux app. The GraphQL data layer is inspired!

Gatsby is great but it has issues generating sites with a large number of pages. There are performance issues and generation fails if the number of pages goes above a certain threshold.

I had to abandon it for a project that was generating static SEO pages, it was something on the order of 2000 pages and Gatsby couldn't handle it. Hopefully they resolve that soon!

Read this thread but replace every mention of jQuery with "table layouts", the parallels are striking.

jQuery has been a good friend for many years. It saved us from the drudgery of cross-browser support and gave us an enjoyable API for browser development.

Technology moves on, today's browser APIs and tooling are light years ahead of what we had 11 years. You might not need jQuery, and that's ok!