I read an article recently about Gatsby (I think it was on dev.to) which pointed out that even though Gatsby renders static pages, by default it then proceeds to download a big fat JS bundle to do the "hydration" thing. In many cases (a portfolio site comes to mind) that's just overkill and unnecessary overhead (according to the author).
I would tend to agree, but then it got interesting - the author pointed out that there are workarounds (Gatsby plugins) which do away with the JS bundle and the hydration so that you have a truly minimal static site, without JS, generated with Gatsby.
The author then proceeded to question "what then is the point of Gatsby" but it got me thinking nevertheless.
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I read an article recently about Gatsby (I think it was on dev.to) which pointed out that even though Gatsby renders static pages, by default it then proceeds to download a big fat JS bundle to do the "hydration" thing. In many cases (a portfolio site comes to mind) that's just overkill and unnecessary overhead (according to the author).
I would tend to agree, but then it got interesting - the author pointed out that there are workarounds (Gatsby plugins) which do away with the JS bundle and the hydration so that you have a truly minimal static site, without JS, generated with Gatsby.
The author then proceeded to question "what then is the point of Gatsby" but it got me thinking nevertheless.