Medium vs Gatsby JS

Medium has clean, minimalist pages with pictures and great typography.

There are no distractions and with a clean layout and great typography, reading Medium articles is a pleasure.

As soon as you sign-up for the service, you are ready to start writing.

Medium takes away all the clutter without taking away any necessary features for a better writing experience. And it doesn't require knowing Markdown to write, all tools are WYSIWYG.

Has a great network based on tags and search for "Suggest an article" as a similar read to others and for specific categories. Allows you a much bigger audience quicker than most platforms.

Allows for finding new, related content.

A WYSIWYG editor that does not get in the way at all. It is invisible most of the time and only appears when you select something.

Medium allows bookmarking articles and following collections as well as users.

As Medium encourages long-form writing they've re-imagined how comments should work accordingly. You can leave comments for every paragraph separately, so you don't have to reference a specific part in a comments section at the bottom. Technically, the feature is called "notes."

Intended for appreciating a post, allows easier discoverability of an article by other readers.

If you post photos as part of your blog, the interface on Medium is one of the best for both inline uploading as well as display in the post itself.

Medium shows how many people have opened your post and how many have read through it. And how many people have recommended your post.

You can send a draft out to other people and have them edit and leave notes on it.

They can enable this for you upon request.

With so many built-in features and flexibility to use, I would recommend Medium first amongst all.

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.