May 21, 2015
Gatsby open sourced
Kyle Mathews open sourceSoftware whose source code is freely available to use, modify, and redistribute.d Gatsby on May 21, 2015 — a ReactA JavaScript library for building UIs — component trees and declarative rendering for the web.-based static site generator with GraphQL data layer.
What it was for
Gatsby pre-renders ReactA JavaScript library for building UIs — component trees and declarative rendering for the web. pages at build time and pulls data via GraphQL from Markdown, CMSs, and APIs — blazing fast sites with component ergonomics. It powered the JamstackJavaScript, APIs, and markup — sites built as static front ends with serverless backends. movement alongside NetlifyA platform for deploying static sites and serverless functions — Git push to production. before Next.js static generation absorbed much of the market.
Companies
- Meta
Why it's here
Gatsby made ReactA JavaScript library for building UIs — component trees and declarative rendering for the web. static sites production-ready with a unified data layer.
Why it mattered
It proved static generation and ReactA JavaScript library for building UIs — component trees and declarative rendering for the web. components could coexist at scale.
What it solved
ReactA JavaScript library for building UIs — component trees and declarative rendering for the web. SPAs were slow to load; teams needed SSRServer-side rendering — HTML generated on the server for faster first paint and SEO./SSG without abandoning components.
Related
- Jamstack term coinedNovember 16, 2015
- React open-sourced at JSConf USMay 29, 2013
- Next.js open sourcedOctober 25, 2016