Company
Date Published
Author
Brian Douglas
Word count
125
Language
English
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None

Summary

Kyle Mathews, founder of Gatsby, discussed his project with me. Gatsby is a framework that lets you build entire websites using React.js, providing a modern JavaScript and CSS development environment. Kyle was motivated to build Gatsby after realizing the limitations of Jekyll, another popular framework at the time. The initial release had some limitations, but the new features in Gatsby 1.0, such as progressive web app enhancements and a plugin system, are exciting. Kyle plans to make Gatsby 2.0 more scalable by including Webpack 3 to support larger web projects, aiming to improve its capabilities. If interested in trying Gatsby, you can deploy a live version of the documentation template using the deploy to Netlify button.