(2019-12-09) Gatsby Cloud And Its Impact On The Headless Cms Space

Gatsby Cloud and Its Impact on the Headless CMS Space. Companies are finding, however, that headless comes with its own set of challenges that requires a slew of technologies to solve. That’s why Gatsby Cloud seems to be a turning point for the headless space.

Gatsby Cloud is a commercial platform meant to make launching static sites easier. Some of the new features include real-time previews, CMS integrations, and a cloud quick-start wizard

One of the main drawbacks of headless static sites is slow build times. While Gatsby Cloud partly mitigates this issue with live previews, there are other tools that can help improve the build process. Weinberg suggests using CI/CD systems like CircleCI, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions. “These can all help automate your build and deploy process and make sure your tests all run before deploying code,” he added.

Gatsby won’t fuel a fully-fledged customer experience across channels. In their own words, Gatsby is a “framework based on React that helps developers build blazing-fast websites and apps.” In other words, If you’re thinking that Gatsby can be the frontend layer for your entire digital experience, think again.