Gatsby
The best React-based framework with performance, scalability and security built in. (by gatsbyjs)
astro
The web framework for content-driven websites. ⭐️ Star to support our work! (by withastro)
Gatsby | astro | |
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370 | 576 | |
55,670 | 48,890 | |
0.7% | 1.9% | |
8.7 | 9.9 | |
8 days ago | 5 days ago | |
JavaScript | TypeScript | |
MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Gatsby
Posts with mentions or reviews of Gatsby.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-02-06.
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I built a recipe website
I initially built the site using a static site technology called Gatsby, not realizing that it was actually a dead project. After a little research, I found that Next.js is a pretty popular alternative for building a static site, so I set myself to the task of porting it.
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From Gatsby to Next.js: Why We Migrated Our Blog and How You Can Too
After Netlify’s acquisition of Gatsby, the framework’s development trajectory shifted. With a focus on integrating with Netlify’s ecosystem, Gatsby’s innovation appears to be gone. Throughout the entire 2024 we’ve seen only 1 minor update in the 5.x branch and even that consists mainly of bumped dependencies and small fixes:
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A 2024 Retrospective: My Unexpected Astro & Laravel Love Affair
Marking the first days and months of 2024 I started a site to host articles and blogs and what I called uploadz and missivz. I am using Astro having migrated from Gatsby in years previous. Astro is arguably faster to compile static sites and has a simpler, cleaner, in my view, way of creating simple component based web pages. It has the capability of embedding 'islands' of react, svelte, even plain Javascript and far more without having to go full on SPA if you don't want to. This was too tempting not to take a look and quite frankly I got hooked. Whilst I don't use a fraction of what Astro has to offer it has become a go-to for me for not just static sites but also to create POCs, quick Demos and more. It also has become the basis of a lightweight content management system I am developing and have implemented this year for clients and a non-profit. The CMS I refer to uses a back-end written in Laravel.
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A Guide to Server-Side Rendering
Gatsby: Primarily a static site generator, but also supports SSR.
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Getting started with Shadcn/UI in React: A practical guide
It is a collection of beautifully designed user interface (UI) components that you can easily copy and paste into your applications. Developers can use it with any framework that supports React, like Next, Gatsby, Remix, and others.
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Best React Frameworks: Which One Should You Choose and When?
Gatsby Official Documentation
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How I Built My Personal Website for Free with Hugo
My previous website used the Gatsby framework, for a simple reason: I am very familiar with React, so I thought customization would be easier. However, I later realized I didnt have time to maintain a bunch of Typescript and Javascript, which made me reluctant to update my website. This time, I choose Hugo. Maintaining a small amount of Go Template is easier, and I am familiar with Golang, too.
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Taming the Beast: Structuring Large-Scale React Applications 🏗️
Gatsby: A static site generator ideal for content-heavy websites, offering performance optimizations out of the box. Gatsby Documentation
- Hexo et Hugo : deux générateurs statiques bien pratiques
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Frontend frameworks: Next/Nuxt/Gatsby: Mastering one or knowing all
**Gatsby** is optimized for building fast static websites and apps with a focus on performance and SEO. It uses GraphQL for data management.
astro
Posts with mentions or reviews of astro.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-02-09.
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A Simple Guide to Making Money with Mobile Development
If you already build web apps with Next.js and Astro, you have a head start. This guide will help you learn mobile development so you can build and sell apps. We will use simple language and plenty of links and resources to help you along the way.
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Bring Your Scroll to Life: A Beginner’s Guide to Scroll-Based Animations with GSAP
I'm using a component-based framework (like Astro) along with Tailwind CSS classes and GSAP to build our animation experience. Here’s a quick overview of our file structure:
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Blasting Off With Astro
Astro is a JavaScript web framework optimized for building fast, content-driven websites... It supports every major UI framework. Bring your existing components and take advantage of Astro's optimized client build performance.
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🔥Top 3 Amazing Next.js Alternatives To Try 🫨
1. Astro: The web framework for content-driven websites
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My Favorite VSCode Extensions for Modern Development
Astro: Complete meta-framework support. More on Astro.build
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Using React with Astro: A Quick Tutorial
Hey there! If you love React and want to try out a faster, lighter way to build websites, then Astro has you covered. Astro makes it easy to use React components within its static-first framework.
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Exploring Astro: Your New Favorite Web Framework
Hey there! If you’re into building modern websites, you’ve probably heard about Astro. (I hadn't until about two weeks ago) It’s a new kid on the block, and it’s turning heads for all the right reasons...or is it? It's healthy to be a skeptic. Astro makes it super easy to build fast, lightweight websites—and today, I’m going to give you the lowdown on why it’s awesome, how it stacks up against Next.js, and even walk you through a quick example to get started.
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Astro: Best for business, portfolio and bloging sites
Many brands currently using you can on their website https://astro.build/
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Top 10 GitHub Repositories every Web Developer should know in 2025
Astro is a meta framework focused on creating content-heavy websites. This is honestly my current favorite framework for building static marketing sites, blogs, and whatever else that doesn't require a ton of interactivity. I've used this more than I can remember in the last year and can't stop recommending it to people. It has 48k stars 🌟. Learn more about Astro here.
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Building bun-tastic: A Fast, High-Performance Static Site Server (OSS)
Static sites are a thing of beauty and simplicity. They're fast, secure, and easy to manage. The JAMStack movement help made it popular (after SPAs) and static site builders like Hugo and Eleventy are making it simple to build websites in this manner. I dare not mention Astro because it's the new kid making building static sites cooler than ever.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Gatsby and astro you can also consider the following projects:
eleventy 🕚⚡️ - A simpler site generator. Transforms a directory of templates (of varying types) into HTML.
vite - Next generation frontend tooling. It's fast!
Svelte - web development for the rest of us
SvelteKit - web development, streamlined
fresh - The next-gen web framework.
React - The library for web and native user interfaces.
Hugo - The world’s fastest framework for building websites.
craco - Create React App Configuration Override, an easy and comprehensible configuration layer for Create React App.
mozaik - Mozaïk is a tool based on nodejs / react / redux / nivo / d3 to easily craft beautiful dashboards
htmx - </> htmx - high power tools for HTML