Functions on Gatsby Cloud is here! To show our excitement the Gatsby team recently held a friendly, internal competition to build out some examples in order to demonstrate the power and flexibility that will soon be available to all Gatsby users.

When Facebook needed to build an information onramp for Diem, their soon-to-launch global digital payment system, they turned to Boulder, Colorado-based Dfuzr Industries -- and Dfuzr turned to Gatsby.

Enabling the community to easily write and release plugins for use with Gatsby is an absolute hammer of an idea. It gives Gatsby enthusiasts like myself a way to easily get started with open source by providing a solid foundation for us to build on. Then, once you’ve got the plugin basics down you can really let your imagination run wild. This is the story of how I combined my interest in markdown / MDX with the Gatsby plugin ecosystem to contribute a brand new open source plugin, `gatsby-mdx-embed`. And now I'm looking for #hacktoberfest contributions to help the project reach its first major milestone, a stable v1.0.0 release.

For his groovy Gatsby Days Reloaded presentation, Trevor Blades delves into Gatsby’s wide-ranging plugin ecosystem for a look at some of his personal favorites: plugins that particularly enhance the local development experience.

“Five years ago today, a nascent Gatsby emerged in the form of Issue 1 on the brand new Gatsbyjs GitHub repo. Here are some thoughts about where we began and how Gatsby has evolved during this most interesting demi-decade.”