Gatsby (software)

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Gatsby
Developer(s) Gatsby, Inc.
Initial release2015
Stable release
5.13.0 / 18 December 2023;4 months ago (2023-12-18)
Repository github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby
Written in JavaScript, TypeScript
Platform Web platform
Type Web application framework
License MIT License
Website gatsbyjs.com

Gatsby is an open-source static site generator built on top of Node.js using React and GraphQL. It provides over 2500 plugins to create static sites based on sources as Markdown documents, MDX (Markdown with JSX), images, and numerous Content Management Systems such as WordPress, Drupal and more. [1] Since version 4 Gatsby also supports Server-Side Rendering and Deferred Static Generation for rendering dynamic websites on a Node.js server. [2] Gatsby is developed by Gatsby, Inc. which also offers a cloud service, Gatsby Cloud, for hosting Gatsby websites. [3] The service was terminated by Netlify in August 2023. [4]

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Gatsby was launched in 2015. The company raised $15 million in Series A funding in September 2019, [5] and $20 million in Series B funding in 2020. [6] In February 2023, Netlify acquired Gatsby, Inc.. [6]

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