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> Convince the WordPress/enterprise crowd to switch over

The Gatsby homepage mentions Wordpress as a possible data source. I don't evens see mention of their CMS on the front page. The only "service" I see them advertising there is Preview - which seems to be a development collaboration tool. I don't think they're convincing people to move away from Wordpress.

It's funny that the article talks about moving away from your monolithic "CMS system" (redundant?) so that you can use headless Wordpress or Drupal. In other words, you get to toss your monolithic content management system system so that you can keep your monolithic content management system system.

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Yeah this isn't a Wordpress replacement; it's a framework for creating websites and / or hybrid websites, the way I see it. In that regard it competes with Next, Nest and Nuxt (I don't even know the last two, I lifted that from https://slides.com/seldo/jsconf-eu-2019#/60 ; are those all based on / similar to Next? They should fix their naming)

I believe Nuxt is the VueJS serverside framework version of Next. I've never heard of Nest before, that looks fairly new compared to Next/Nuxt.

Content managers like WordPress and have lots of experience with it. Using it as a backend is fine. Gatsby on the frontend has advantages (speed, security, etc). Combining the two makes a lot of sense.

Yes. It does. And it means you will use WP in a head-less setup.

The main problem is not using a large part of your WP codebase (so much for lean and mean) and that some features in WP dont work as expected.

Now you may want to keep WP up to date and the cost for this may be bigger then a head-less SaaS CMS.

This is the fundamental issue. Gatsby is a modern frontend framework that optimizes the visual experience and interactivity of a site, relying on React as the base tech. It's not an end-to-end solution though, and still requires a backend to provide the data itself, whether that's flat files at build time or a running CMS engine.

Compared to Wordpress, Ghost, and Webflow, it seems the market size for this is limited.

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