I found myself spending an hour trying to pull 4 images using graphql, for a front page. I finally said "F it", and wrote 4 custom queries. It just seemed so backwards.
I also struggled with the plugin or not method as well. Something like having a video background... do I use a plugin, or do I do it the react way? Then halfway through reading the plugin documentation and seeing the super tiny download count (it was like 50? 100?) I started to try to roll out my own version and feeling like I was overthinking this.
Overall - I built a shopify store site with it (followed Leveluptut's tutorials) and it was pretty slick.
But like you, I do wonder what Gatsby's place is in the universe, or if it's just a stop-gap like JQuery and a lot of great features gets absorbed elsewhere.
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Super fair critique! Great post!
I found myself spending an hour trying to pull 4 images using graphql, for a front page. I finally said "F it", and wrote 4 custom queries. It just seemed so backwards.
I also struggled with the plugin or not method as well. Something like having a video background... do I use a plugin, or do I do it the react way? Then halfway through reading the plugin documentation and seeing the super tiny download count (it was like 50? 100?) I started to try to roll out my own version and feeling like I was overthinking this.
Overall - I built a shopify store site with it (followed Leveluptut's tutorials) and it was pretty slick.
But like you, I do wonder what Gatsby's place is in the universe, or if it's just a stop-gap like JQuery and a lot of great features gets absorbed elsewhere.