Comments on Gatsby feature comparison to Wordpress, Jekyll & Squarespace

[calcsam]

With #2443 we're adding a features comparison page to help potential Gatsby adopters compare Gatsby to alternative frameworks and tools such as Wordpress, Jekyll & Squarespace.

Because framework capabilities are always changing we're opening this issue as a general banner to ensure the information contained remains complete, accurate and up to date. Please comment with suggestions if you feel it is not, especially if you are a member of the Wordpress, Jekyll or Squarespace communities.

[bep]

The "traditional static site generators such as Jekyll" and "comparison with a representative from each category" is misleading.

GatsbyJS should be proud of its features and uniqueness, but to put all the others (like Hugo, where I come from) into one basket doesn't make much sense. That is just false advertising.

Compare it to Jekyll, that's fine and dandy -- but please remove the "STATIC SITE GENS" category.

[KyleAMathews]

How would you categorize things?

[bep]

How would you categorize things?

I wouldn't. There are 100s of static generators. There are plenty of diversity. GatsbyJS is excellent for certain use cases, Hugo is excellent for certain use cases ... Etc. You cannot truly put this into a matrix table with "GatsbyJS vs the rest of the static generators".

I would put the focus on GatsbyJS' features.

But this isn't my project. Up to you, but right now it doesn't look right.

[ghost]

"CSS Extensions (eg Sass)" is fully supported in Jekyll
https://jekyllrb.com/docs/assets/#sassscss

[lvpreet]

how we can study the architecture of this project ?
Thankyou

[will-swu]

Is there a managed SaaS editor offering for Gatsby? There is https://cloudcannon.com/ for Jekyll

[samfrost]

There's a minor typo in the expanded detail for 'No extraneous code fetching'. Last sentence 'fine' is spelt with two I's (fiine).

[mittalyashu]

Can you add Nuxt as a competitor?

[mittalyashu]

Jekyll has _includes which works similar to components.

[chrisarusso]

The comparison paragraph prefetched linked pages reads:

You can put this together in considerably more tricky for Wordpress & requires maintaining dual PHP and JS templates.

That sentence needs some work - it doesn't currently make sense. Perhaps you meant

This in considerably more tricky for Wordpress & requires maintaining dual PHP and JS templates.

[SteveALee]

At the top of the page you list 3 types of sites. I'm keen to know how Gatsby compares with an SPA, perhaps made with create-react-app. Obviously Gatsby makes more decisions, but would some types of SPA be better made with Gatsby?

I am really assuming the line between an app and a site is very blurred :)

[spookylukey]

For me a critical feature to have on this list is what I would call "HTTP basics" (sometimes called "server side rendering") which is a bunch of things:

1. a URL for some specific HTML resource should return the actual HTML content for that resource (not some Javascript that, when executed, will fetch and build that HTML).
2. URLs should return appropriate HTTP response codes at the server level (e.g. 200/404 etc).
3. the site content is accessible, at least to a basic level, with Javascript disabled (a fairly key HTTP principle IMO)

Looking at some of the sites in the gallery, some seem to do all these fine (e.g. https://reactjs.org/ ) , others don't e.g.:

curl https://impossiblefoods.com/food/ | html2rst.py

I get nothing - there is no HTML content in the actual HTML document returned.

I know this is similar to the "static content" and "No extraneous code fetching Info" items, but it is also distinct, and none of those bullet points answered this question for me.

(apologies for duplicate posting)

[rbmedia]

Wordpress has all features out of the box in your comparison chart, is this right?
I use gatsby because I am unhappy with the output of CMS like Drupal and wordpress.

[parsadotsh]

Pretty sure the wordpress features list is wrong. It shoes all the features as "Out of the box".

[pieh]

Ah, sorry - will fix soon #9883

[asirota]

A simply type under No extraneous code fetching

Extraneous code fetches are typically done by single-page applications written in various JS frameworks; on page load they fetch the code needed to run the entire application rather than just the page that's loaded. Website-building frameworks tend to be fiine on this.

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[primerano]

under "Asset pipelines" I think Jekyll should be listed as plugins available. I've been using this one for a few years now -> https://github.com/envygeeks/jekyll-assets