WordPress Vs Gatsby Development
WordPress Vs Gatsby Development
What is WordPress??
WordPress is a web-based, open-source creation tool written in
PHP. But in non-geek speaking, it’s probably the easiest and most powerful
blogging and content management system (or CMS) in existence today. According
to sources, 30 percent of websites run through WordPress on a daily basis.
WordPress is the simplest way by which you can create and manage your website.
The best thing about WordPress
is the ‘plugins’ that it offers to its users. Using these
plugins, you can customize your blogs and make them intuitive and attractive.
According to a study, every one out of four websites on the
internet is created by WordPress. WordPress offers you a wide range of
functionalities that decreases your workload.
What is Gatsby??
Gatsby is a fun-to-use web application generator for React that
makes it easy to set up fast websites. Gatsby provides a modern framework for
transforming content into feature-rich, visually appealing apps and websites. The simplest
answer to the “What is Gatsby” question is this: Gatsby (aka GatsbyJS) is a
static site generator built on the ReactJS.
In its simplest definition, a static website is a group of HTML
pages that do not extract any data from a database when a viewer visits it.
Thus, every visitor has the same appearance as a static site. Static sites can
also be loaded faster, as the server sends the same response to each visitor.
You cannot customize content for visitors as it happens on WordPress.
Comparison between WordPress and
Gatsby
Now move on to the comparison between two of these:
- Delivery
optimization- If I talk about delivery optimization,
gatsby has a slight upper hand over WordPress as Gatsby’s delivery
optimization provides good static content.
- Payload
optimization- in terms of payload optimization, gatsby
provides good and efficient progressive image loading, responsive image
loading, in lines critical CSS along with font self-hosting. All these
mentioned factors over here are way better in gatsby than in WordPress.
- Progressive web app (PWA)- This
aspect of gatsby includes offline access over the content, prefetching of
linked pages, page caching along with no extraneous code fetching; on
WordPress, these features are there but not this much efficient as they
are on gatsby.
Developers experience- Now take
a look at developers to experience on Gatsby and WordPress-
- Manageability
and debuggability- Gatsby provides way better serverless
features, hot reloading content along hot reloading code than WordPress.
WordPress also includes these things, but they are not as efficient as
Gatsby provides.
- Declarative
rendering- Gatsby provides a vast experience to its users over
componentization, one-way data binding, Declarative data queries along
with declarative UI building than to WordPress.
- Modern
development process- This factor plays the most crucial role
for any website owner, but on Gatsby, the matter of instance is you get
Asset pipelines, CSS extensions with Modern Java script of good
efficiency, but on WordPress, these features are of low quality and less
efficiency.
- Security- As a website
developer or as a website owner, you always think twice about your
security; on the security aspect, both the platforms are so very secure
with XSS protection, Access control, Environmental variables, and user
authentication.
- Design- When it
comes to design than WordPress is terrible before Gatsby, Gatsby provides you features for designing as
Programmatic design, Design system, and component libraries.
Still, on WordPress, you won’t get to see the Design system and component
libraries.
- Documentation
guide- Both the platforms provide a good quality
documentation process along with the industrial tutorial, sourcing data,
and incorporating CSS frameworks.
- Community- On the communities
aspect, both platforms are so very efficient as they both have a variety
of features for this particular aspect. They both provide a Pairing
program, swag store, code of conduct with a contributing section in the
document.
Conclusion
Both of the platforms have their own specialties in their own
way. It is acceptable that Gatsby is kind of new in this business, so it is
designed with all the good qualities and efficiency. Still, on the other hand,
WordPress lacks some instances which can be updated by throwing its newer
version on the market. But for now, Gatsby is more efficient than WordPress.

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