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What is Gatsby WordPress and Why Does it Matter?

   John Doe      August 29th, 2020

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Gatsby being Static site generator can take data from any source and when the WordPress is being used as headless CMS having APIs like GraphQL it becomes the perfect pair. Gatsby has some good plugins to source data from the CMS like WordPress.  Headless word press separates the back end (admin’s side) with the front end (website seen by customer). It separates/decouples the front end or head of the website form the back end. It allows us to separate the data layer and presentation model. They go hand in hand and the good thing is you can manage both separately.

Headless WordPress is the best Back-end

When you use headless WordPress, you need not worry about where your content gets displayed. Its only goal is sorting and delivering well-structured content. It started with a simple blog writing tool and now it’s developer’s top choice. Why is it the most popular CMS, just because of its easy usage and pliability. You will install headless WordPress like any other CMS and after that, you will manage your dashboard the same way by creating lightweight pages or others.

Gatsby as the best Front-end

Gatsby is an open-source framework that supports React.js for developing modern stack websites and applications. Gatsby uses React-based framework for static sites that are center of attraction for several JavaScript developers but many of the WordPress developers and users also are showing great interest this new revolution within the tech world.

Gatsby WordPress as a combination

Jamstack Themes is an infrastructure of website and application development that supports microservices and detach the front-end and back-end negating the typical structure of web development. With the change of time, the structures are refining and improving the website and application performance.

Gatsby is used for the front-end design and static site generator whereas WordPress supports as the back-end and the location for the APIs i.e GraphQL. This structure is a clear depiction of JAMstack technology with a new architectural structure with many benefits from this revolutionary technology. Using the Git repository, you can source the dependencies and the source plugin easily. WordPress is the best CMS and most trending and on the other hand, Gatsby is the best Static Site generator so both of these best tools are brought together and linked through GraphQL APIs.

Reason for Gatsby WordPress Preference

The Website content needs to be pushed on a platform like GitHub and bitbucket which is a code generator and the SSGs read the code in terms of HTML files. But the user may not necessarily know the development techniques, languages, and other skills to do the needful. Some platforms offering built0in and no-code solutions are the perfect marketplace for non-developers and on the other hand, the developers and the tech freaks would dig things out to learn more about the technology. All the benefits come together to make a website and technology a big success. Things work only if people are working on making improvements. There are places where headless WordPress is not appropriate to use e.g. if you have users unfamiliar with coding and you have to update on daily basis on your site for this you must have a worker fluent in JavaScript to maintain it because headless WordPress removes the front end.