Wix vs Gatsby JS

Wix has an add-on store, called the App Market, that includes community developed bits of functionality (such as comments, calendars and integrations with third-party services) that you can add to your site. The store includes both free and paid add-ons.

There's a selection of elements you can choose from in the sidebar that you can drag and drop into the page and edit. There are common elements such as text, images and buttons as well as less common elements such as blog or online store. All elements can be adjusted to some extent to fit your needs. For example, you can change things like the font, weight and style of text and even crop, adjust colors and apply filters to images.

Wix comes with various kinds of templates based on the users genre and needs, ranging from personal, blog, club, portfolio to commercial.

This means you can add custom interactions and API's to your site when needed, but do most of the editing in a GUI. This helps you avoid the need to redo an entire site if you need custom interactions. Also dead easy to connect a database and have dynamic components based on CMS updates.

Editing markup is phenomenally easy when you have components.

Every change you make can be almost immediately seen in a browser.

Gatsby offers a lot of plugins to integrate tools like SASS, typescript, styled components, etc.

Gatsby is very actively developed and the maintainers are very helpful.

Gatsby can generate the pages with content from any sources like Drupal, Wordpress, Contentful, etc. If the source plugin is not coded for your solution, you can create it.

The static pages are generated by Server Site Rendering of the React app. So you have all benefits of a static site, and all benefits of a React app, which is very powerful.

Gatsby have a lot of examples sites in his github repository.