Scaling the production of Gatsby sites

Gatsby is great for not only static sites but also traditional web applications. Using Gatsby enables the benefits of both static and web applications so you don't have to sacrifice the advantages of one approach to reap the benefits of the other.

You don't need to use source plugins (or create Gatsby nodes) to pull data into a Gatsby site! This article explores how to use Gatsby without GraphQL (using "unstructured data"), and some of the pros and cons of doing so.