This site has been running on Gatsby for a little while now. Static sites bring all sorts of advantages with regards to speed, size etc, but they're not so great for dynamic content like comments.

Turns out there are lots of options when adding comments to Gatsby. I didn't want to spend any money, and I strongly resisted the urge to roll my own, so went for Staticman. Here's what I did.

I've recently moved this blog from WordPress to Gatsby. So far, I'm very happy with the move, but I missed a couple of the things WordPress gave me out of the box. One of those things were the various widgets you can add to the sidebar.

In particular, I missed the Category Widget. This is how I recreated it.