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We provide Gatsby development the right way.

We develop Gatsby sites by focusing on performance, SEO, accessibility, scalability, and easy maintenance.

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Conduktor

Conduktor builds and manages an enterprise Apache Kafka interface platform.

We helped Conduktor create the foundation for their website, which has gotten a design revamp since then.

Visit Conduktor: Conduktor.io

Butterfly

Butterfly is a London-based marketing consultant agency.

We built their site using a headless and static site generation technology.

Visit Butterfly: Butterfly.London

Buddy Healthcare

Buddy Healthcare develops an award-winning care coordination & patient engagement platform.

We re-coded their whole website to enable their marketing team to create new pages and content blocks entirely on their own by utilizing a modular CMS connection.

Visit Buddy Healthcare: BuddyHealthcare.com

Frida

Frida helps those suffering with ADHD get the help they deserve by providing ADHD diagnosis, ongoing care and helpful articles based on ADHD information.

We built their whole website in a way that enables their marketing and content creation team to freely build pages and content without restrictions.

Visit Frida: TalkWithFrida.com

WorkED

WorkED provides unique learning experiences by providing programs that give meaningful insight to careers that those who are still looking for a career will appreciate.

We developed their website in a component-based approach to enable their content writers to build pages and program pages by themselves and to keep their website scalable.

Read case study: Building a highly scalable headless Jamstack site for WorkED

Visit WorkED: Worked.com

WA.nl

WA provides information on insurances and legalities in the Netherlands.

We provided them a solution that is highly SEO optimized and scalable.

Read case study: Using JamStack to scale with WA.nl

Visit WA: WA.nl

Purposemed

Purposemed builds platforms that connect patients with specialized clinicians so they can receive compassionate healthcare from the comfort of their home.

We have built them now two sites, one being their parent company site PurposeMed and their Frida platform's marketing site.

Visit Purposemed: PurposeMed.com

Sintrol

Sintrol is a global manufacturing and solution-offering company in the field of analyzers and measuring devices.

We provided usability and accessibility fixes on Sintrol's site, as well as search engine optimization.

Visit Sintrol: Sintrol.com

Hailer

Hailer provides communication and workflow management platform, similar to Slack.

We provided accessibility fixes, search engine optimization and ongoing maintenance for Hailer.

Visit Hailer: Hailer.com

How we do Gatsby development

We provide development on fresh Gatsby builds and existing Gatsby sites. Our main focus is on good user experience and search engine optimization. We achieve these by optimizing the site speed, following best practices, keeping accessibility and usability in mind, having a great mobile experience, and making sure the site can scale with more content and more visitors.

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Why choose us as your Gatsby development company

We have a track record of providing fast, scalable, and reliable Gatsby sites. As Gatsby development is our main niche, we have very specific Gatsby experience and knowledge that can't be beaten. We understand the best practices and limitations of Gatsby and know how the limitations can be overcome.

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What makes Gatsby so great

Speed

As Gatsby provides fully static sites, the entire site can be served via a CDN. Not just the images, but also the CSS, JS, fonts, and HTML files.

When compared to plain React, a Gatsby site will already display its content before any JavaScript has started loading. This is possible thanks to the build-time generated static HTML files.

Security

Since with Gatsby a potential backend or CMS connection happens on build time, users do not interact with the backend at all. This makes the site very secure for both your company and the visitors.

A static Gatsby site is just HTML, CSS, and JS. It is tamper-proof, malicious visitors can't harm your site from your front-end as there is no backend or database to access.

Safe choice

Gatsby is a safe choice as it has matured enough to have support and solutions for most services and platforms, and it has its own developer ecosystem.

E-commerce platforms, headless CMS services, and other third-party plugins all usually have existing Gatsby support either developed by the service itself, or community-made.

Node.js build-time environment

As Gatsby utilizes Node.js during its build time, it can source data from anywhere. If you have some internal company backend, it can be used as a source.

Node.js also enables custom file generations during build time, secure API calls, and anything else that a short-period Node environment can be used for.

Stress-free maintenance

If you have used WordPress, you know how its plugins and themes need to be updated regularly to prevent security breaches from happening. That's not an issue with Gatsby!

As Gatsby is fully static with no active backend, you don't have to worry about keeping the front-end updated. There is simply no way you can hack a site using only its static files.

Easy hosting options

Gatsby can be hosted very easily with existing static host solutions such as Netlify, Gatsby Cloud, Vercel, and AWS Amplify. No need to get complicated with a custom server!

This still doesn't mean that you can't use a custom server, the sites with thousands of pages that we have worked on do have custom servers to reduce costs and have full control over the builds.

Our headless CMS picks for Gatsby

If you want to enable your entire team to edit your site, you most likely want to connect the site to a headless CMS platform.

We have currently worked with Contentful, Storyblok, Dato CMS, Prismic, Agility, Strapi, Directus, WordPress, and Shopify. If your choice of a CMS is not on that list, don't worry, learning a new CMS after using so many takes no effort at all — they all function the same.

Our recommendations currently are Storyblok or Contentful for regular marketing sites, Strapi or Directus if self-hosting the CMS is important for you, and Shopify for e-commerce.

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FAQ about our Gatsby development

What sized Gatsby sites do you provide?

We have experience in building large, medium, and small Gatsby sites. Our usual site has around 10-200 pages, but some of the sites we work on are at around 3000-4000 pages now.

What fields do you provide sites in?

We work with any field, but most of our clients are from medical fields, tech startups, agencies, and education.

How long does it take for you to build a Gatsby site?

There is no single answer, but on average our builds take 2-4 weeks.

If I send you a message, who will answer?

Hi, my name is Jere, I'm the one who will answer 👋! I'm a Gatsby freelancer, I got started with Gatsby at its v2 version around 3 years ago. Since then I have perfected my Gatsby skills, and I am ready to add your site to the 40+ Gatsby sites I have worked on.

When can the development get started?

If we are not unusually busy, we can get started on developing your site within a couple of days after signing a contract.

What if I need a backend?

If you need backend functionalities such as user logins, real-time data or backend authentication, we recommend you have a look at our Next.js development.

We prefer Gatsby over Next.js for fully static sites, but Next.js takes the win if there is a need for an active backend connection within the site.

If the backend functionality that you need is not major, it can also be achieved by serverless functions.

What kind of built-in SEO functionalities does Gatsby have?

You can see most of them on our Gatsby vs. Astro vs. Next.js SEO comparison.

Let's build you the perfect Gatsby site

Contact via email: info@vaihe.com