Gatsby Cloud Reviews & Product Details
Gatsby is considered the fastest front end for Headless CMSs. It is also the only platform designed for building and hosting Gatsby sites. The platform is known for improving page speeds, efficiency in code deployment, previewing draft content, and facilitating collaboration between developers and marketers. It even supports near-real-time previews of draft code and website content solves one of the primary pain points.
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| Deployment | Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based |
| Support | 24/7 (Live rep), Chat, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support |
| Training | Documentation |
| Languages | English |
It's very user friendly and understandable for a non-developer as well, in my case marketer and ecommerce manager. Easy to reload sites and also look in to performance and lighthouse report
I miss an export funciton for errors. In our setup we have products that's some times is dublicated, I can find all warnings and URLs to use but would like the export function for easier work with it, when it's a long list.
We have all our 6 sites at one place. We also have dev enviorment that I also could look at the performace and accessibility to check before release. I think we have saved a lot of time during the last year.
The documentation is excellent and the framework is not overly opinionated. A good balance of flexibility and out-of-the-box scaffolding. The cloud hosting is reasonably priced and couldn't be easier to deploy.
The CMS Preview system is fragile, and not very dependable. I've basically learned to ignore it as a feature, although it would be great to have.
We built resource library sites on Rails, then on Wordpress. But Rails was expensive and the dev time was cost-prohibitive. Wordpress has moved towards being a Wix/Squarespace competitor and is no longer well-suited for custom MVC-style development. Gatsby (which we use with a Sanity backend) has filled that niche for us.
Ability to easily create preview sites from PR's
Limits user accounts that can be created on the basic plans. Expensive to add more users
Gatsby Cloud is helping with ensuring our sites perform at the highest level helping us with SEO ranking
Super easy to preview all of my content changes on the website before they go live to ensure that there are no errors and everything is formatted properly. Saves a ton of time!
There is not much that I dislike about the product. It is easy to use, fast, reliable, and extremely easy to navigate. The interface is great, and super easy to learn.
It helps me solve the issue of waiting for staging and production deployments (which used to take up to 30 minuted before). Now I can preview my content changes in the matter of minutes.
Great integration with GitHub, it just worked so well. I integrated a main branch and dev branch in minutes by connecting my GitHub account to the Gatsby Cloud. It was so quick and easy to setup, and adding a custom domain was super easy as well!
There aren't really any bad points I have found so far. The notifications from the system when issues are found are informative and they let you know when any services are having issues or are down. I can't fault it so far and have been using the Gatsby Cloud for around 6+ months now with any issues at all.
I needed a platform to host a customers website, not having a huge working knowledge of Gatsby I didn't what anything that was loads of setup and hassle to implement. Gatsby Cloud was simple to setup and get running, and took less that 15 minutes to push the site live.
Simple to get started, high-performance builds and previews. All the config you need, great UX, logging, etc.
Gatsby cloud is all it needs to be! No downsides personally.
Gatsby cloud makes building, deploying, and hosting a sinch.
Having per-PR builds, CMS previews, and Lighthouse reports built-in without much configuration was a massive help. It connected to our ecosystem with no issues.
There was a restriction around implementing different environments, but we solved it differently.
Gatsby Cloud saved dozens of hours from building our own solution; it's very clearly a cost saving for us.
the dashboard is very user friendly and easy to find the functionality i need.I like the fact that the PR builds are separated now. there is no competitor with such an easy user experience
the log console/log review takes a lot of time. The product would be better if there is a way to clean the cache of the PR build. this is the improvements I'd love to see
it;s easy to manage multiple sites easily. the company is paying for the account and Ido think there are cheaper option, but more complex and with a more complex setup
fast builds, cms reviews, incremental builds and deploy reviews are amazing.
being able to pay a fee for incremental builds.
Secure, integrating with a cms for frontends and enabling previews and also cheaper hosting considering the stack we use.
The integration methods are simple. It is hard to mess up. I also enjoy having incremental live preview of my pages as I update data in Sanity. The free tier is also very generous.
Sometimes the Incremental build will be stuck and other times the data in Sanity doesn't sync up with Gatsby Cloud. We are often asked by our content team to clear cache and redeploy to get things working again.
It provides a decent preview environment for our use case.
It's amazingly easy to use, well-documented, and reliable.
Nothing really :) So far it has exceeded my expectations.
We're migrating from a legacy Wordpress CMS to the headless era. Gastby gives us modern technology that enables a highly-customizable frontend that's fast, secure, and easily deployable in CDN.