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Nick Taylor

Ahh, that'll teach me for responding very late at night. 😉. I'd recommend combing through other issues in the repo. There appears to be at least a few in regards to build times in there.

Having said that, the main benefit of Gatsby is a fast site, not a blazingly fast build time (within reason of course, DX is important). I use it for my blog and it works great, but it's not hundreds of pages.

Logically, I can only assume as more and more pages get added, the build time will slowly increase.

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Arden de Raaij

Haha well you might've been right, I kinda just assumed build time was the issue.

In any case, I think it would be nice to have incremental builds, something that the team is working on although I haven't heard much about it lately

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aurel kurtula

@nickytonline I used to use jekyll to keep my personal notes, hence I updated it very frequently. It worked great before I got 90 posts (90 markdown files) then it was a drag. Clearly a normal blog - updated 1-3 times a week, would not feel the problem.

It be cool if Gatsby worked like "Ok there are no changes to the 90 posts, so let me build only the 99th".

Clearly it's not meant to be used for daily note-taking but it be nice to know if that's something the developers might have in the pipeline

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Nick Taylor

According to the tweet Arden posted in this thread, it looks like you're gonna get your wish 😉