Back in 2021, I wrote about why I chose Gatsby for my blog . Five years later, this site runs on Astro. Here's why I switched, and everything that broke on the way.

State of Gatsby

Gatsby was acquired by Netlify in February 2023, and active development on the framework stopped shortly after. Gatsby Cloud got folded into Netlify Cloud that August, the core contributors moved on, and most plugin maintainers abandoned their plugins. The framework isn't formally dead. npm install gatsby still works, patches still trickle out, but the ecosystem around it is unmaintained, and the community discussion has been going in circles for two years.

For a nine-post blog you can ignore all that for a while. What pushed me over wasn't a dramatic break, it was a small one: a dependency bump that surfaced a plugin issue nobody was ever going to fix.…