Let's JAMstack - write words in Ghost, deploy static with Gatsby

Building a static site using a CD/CI pipeline produces a fast and safe experience across devices. The end website is a static result of the content that is connected to a Github repository. You can safely control the content application separately from the public facing static product.

A couple quick points:

  • Total cost on this project for a local machine hosted Ghost blog and a netlify hosted static Gatsby site could be $0/year.
  • Gatsby leverages React + GraphQL + Webpack to build a static version of your complex application.
Theme files for a normal Ghost CMS.
The reason this matters to us is we can write our content and organize it using an application (Ghost or Kentico or any other CMS) and then run Gatsby to create a performative site.

This stack is demonstrated by this very content! Our Ghost CMS is hosted inside Google Cloud, and a webhook pushes new articles to the Netlify hosted Gatsby static site.