Gatsby does an incredible amount of cool stuff for you, automatically. This makes Gatsby an incredibly powerful, versatile tool -- but also can make it difficult to explain what Gatsby does in a concise and approachable way. Let's look at race cars, Neo from The Matrix, and a few other fun ways to frame the many amazing things Gatsby does for users.
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.
