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From Gatsby to Hugo: Why I Finally Let Go

Pretext Around 5–6 years ago, I stumbled upon GatsbyJS while searching for a JavaScript framework that could actually handle everything my personal blog needed: Markdown content Image optimization Static site generation At the time, Gatsby felt like a silver bullet. My prior experience with GraphQL fit perfectly into Gatsby’s mental model, and to this day I’ll argue that Gatsby’s image tooling was — and still is — top-tier. Back then, it solved problems most frameworks barely acknowledged.