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Gatsby JS
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Gatsby is a free, open-source static site generator based on React that helps with building static websites and apps. It is also supported by GraphQL.
A static site generator needs no database, because it delivers all content — already rendered statically in advance — to simple web servers. To minimise some of the drawbacks of static site generators, Gatsby combines this idea with modern techniques from web development.