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I really like Gatsby & static site generators, especially when hosted on something like Netlify. Have you used it with a Drupal or WordPress on a larger site?
by mattferderer 8y ago
I really like Gatsby & static site generators, especially when hosted on something like Netlify.
Have you used it with a Drupal or WordPress on a larger site? To do a decoupled site, every time someone publishes a new article or a change, you are going to have to do a ton of HTTP requests during build time for Gatsby since incremental builds are not a thing yet. If you use the Drupal Paragraphs module, that can really complicate things as well. The only way around this with Gatsby that I can think of is to have Drupal create a repository of static files that get incrementally updated. Then Gatsby could grab a compressed version of this during build & create a new version of the site.
I would love to hear thoughts from anyone else though as I'm sure better ideas must exist.
- octalmage 8y agoI noticed this too. I wrote a WordPress plugin to trigger a TravisCI build when I publish a post and this works great, but it takes 5 minutes or so to publish a new version of the site. For me this isn’t a huge deal, although waiting 5 minutes to fix a grammar issue sucks, but for some this is going to be a bigger deal when they’re used to being able to make changes instantly. I noticed that the Gatsby WordPress plugin hits every endpoint on your site to build the graphql data store, you could probably modify it to just hit the ones you need. Additionally I feel like there should be a way to do persistent incremental builds. At least there should be a way to cache the graphql stuff. Maybe a incremental webpack build plugin exists.
- mattferderer 8y agoIncremental builds via Webpack being worked on. Gatsby is waiting on these - https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby/issues/179 https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby/issues/179