Squarespace vs Gatsby JS

Squarespace's WYSIWYG tools are intuitive and support drag & drop functionality allowing you to change existing layout or add an article quickly.

Squarespace templates offer an optimal viewing experience depending on the width of the browser window so they will work and look great both on desktop and mobile devices.

Squarspace allows complete creative control over how you want your website to look and function. It can be a complete website.

Squarspace offers detailed metrics, that can also easily be accessed from your phone via an iOS app.

Squarespace has a bunch of small nice-to-haves that make it a pleasure to use, like automatically getting a screengrab when adding a video so that the site doesn't load the whole video before the user has clicked on it, or a sign-up process that's sane among other things.

Squarespace offers a great selection of highly polished templates across a variety of categories and styles.

Squarespace promises to answer all question within an hour.

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.