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Thanks for the great piece of software! I really like how the Gatsby community is dabbling in templates for more than just blogs. I've seen documentation sites, landing pages, and notes.

Here are some thoughts on my experience with Gatsby:

- You've done a lot of work to make configuring Gatsby easier, but I still seem to constantly hit roadblocks trying to get the config I want. For example I was running into problems getting MermaidJS, embedded video (that I was hosting on my own machine, not on YouTube), and mdx files all working together.

- I've been thinking that Gatsby is the perfect framework for creating semantic web content. E.g., you could have calendar events sprinkled through a website and create a GraphQL API for listing those calendar events, and that API would be accessible during the build process.



Interesting, what were the challenges you faced with MDX?

We built https://mintdata.com/docs on it, and it's been proverbially better than sliced bread -- that is, a true joy to work with MDX.

What're the challenges/pitfalls you faced with MDX + Gatsby?




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