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Ben Holmes

Ohhh I wouldn't say that! I agree that Gatsby can be a bit heavy-handed for certain projects, but it strikes a neat balance between stateful clientside logic and static rendering. For that reason, I think it's basically a replacement for create-react-app for full-scale projects. It's also great for running your API calls ahead-of-time so you don't ship API keys to the client.