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Seriously! Should every Gatsby blog post on HN have this useless 'React is overkill for static sites' talk? Gatsby is a static site generator! Running Gatsby
by pcr910303 7y ago
Seriously! Should every Gatsby blog post on HN have this useless 'React is overkill for static sites' talk?
Gatsby is a static site generator!
Running Gatsby does NOT make the whole website run on React.
It makes a bunch of HTML pages that are statically served - and some JS progressively enhances it.
The complexity in this blog post has nothing to do with React, it's due to the author's complex requirements that are very beneficial to the user.
Yes, the web is full of bloated pages. No, that's not the topic here. It's so frustrating for people to complain about React on this great post - comment about the post, people!