Topics include:<ul><li>How Gatsby is more than just a static site generator</li><li>How you create pages with Gatsby and how it's more powerful than traditional static site generators</li><li>The benefits of having a unified data access layer for all of your content</li><li>How to build dynamic applications with Gatsby</li><li>Why Gatsby is actually faster than static HTML</li><li>How Gatsby makes performance best practices easy</li><li>Gatsby themes and why they are more exciting than traditional CMS themes</li></ul>Sponsors:<ul><li><a href="https://cloudinary.com/users/register/free?utm_source=fullstackradio&amp;utm_medium=Sponsored_Podcast&amp;utm_content=fullstackradio_PodCast">Cloudinary</a>, sign up and get 300,000 images/videos, 10GB of storage and 20GB of monthly bandwidth for free</li><li><a href="https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=74a1c5d63dac&amp;utm_source=fullstackradio&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=DO_Dev_Signup_Cold_FullStackRadio_Podcast">DigitalOcean</a>, get your free $50 credit at <a href="https://do.co/fullstack">do.co/fullstack</a></li></ul>Links:<ul><li><a href="https://www.gatsbyjs.org/">Gatsby</a></li><li><a href="https://graphql.org/">GraphQL</a></li><li><a href="https://www.gatsbyjs.org/packages/gatsby-image/">gatsby-image</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/reach/router">Reach Router</a></li><li><a href="https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/performance/prpl-pattern/">The PRPL Pattern</a></li><li><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/jlengstorf">Jason on Twitch</a></li></ul>

In this episode, Adam talks to Jason Lengstorf about Gatsby, and why using React and GraphQL to build something even as simple as a blog is not as crazy of an idea as it sounds.

115: Jason Lengstorf - Gatsby for Skeptics