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Show HN: Open – Free React landing page template

#1

Post by DavideP86 » Thu, Apr 16, 2020, 1:08 PM UTC

Show HN: Open – Free React landing page template
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Re: Show HN: Open – Free React landing page template

#2

Post by mosselman » Thu, Apr 16, 2020, 1:33 PM UTC

Why react?

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#3

Post by Etheryte » Thu, Apr 16, 2020, 1:37 PM UTC

mosselman wrote: post #2

Why react?

While maybe slightly curt, I do echo this statement. Nothing on the demo page displays anything you couldn't do with a static page. Using tools devs are familiar with can often be good, but here it's hard to see the benefit.

Re: Show HN: Open – Free React landing page template

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Post by nkozyra » Thu, Apr 16, 2020, 1:42 PM UTC

Etheryte wrote: post #3

mosselman wrote: post #2

Why react?

While maybe slightly curt, I do echo this statement. Nothing on the demo page displays anything you couldn't do with a static page. Using tools devs are familiar with can often be good, but here it's hard to see the benefit.

I suspect the audience is people with a React site already but in that case I'd expect they already have a landing page.

These corporate sites are really the ones that should just be old fashioned HTML + CSS if possible.

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#5

Post by oscarteg » Thu, Apr 16, 2020, 1:42 PM UTC

Using React is really bad for your SEO. If you want to use React, use something like Nextjs or Gatsby to compile it into a static HTML website.

Re: Show HN: Open – Free React landing page template

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Post by nullandvoid » Thu, Apr 16, 2020, 1:45 PM UTC

mosselman wrote: post #2

Why react?

Why not? It's the most popular UI framework. The second you start building a SAAS product on top of those pages, you're not going to want to be in vanilla land.

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Post by frankzander » Thu, Apr 16, 2020, 1:49 PM UTC

mosselman wrote: post #2

Why react?

Because a startup without a react landingpage isn't really a startup and not as hipster as the other new companies in town ;)

Re: Show HN: Open – Free React landing page template

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Post by brabel » Thu, Apr 16, 2020, 2:03 PM UTC

nullandvoid wrote: post #6

mosselman wrote: post #2

Why react?

Why not? It's the most popular UI framework. The second you start building a SAAS product on top of those pages, you're not going to want to be in vanilla land.

Because you want your landing page to load instantly and React or any other JS-generated site just can't compete in loading speed with a static HTML page.

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#9

Post by arnaudsm » Thu, Apr 16, 2020, 2:06 PM UTC

What's the advantage of using React for a landing page that could be a 10KB static HTML file ? (non-sarcastic question)

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#10

Post by frankzander » Thu, Apr 16, 2020, 2:10 PM UTC

nullandvoid wrote: post #6

mosselman wrote: post #2

Why react?

Why not? It's the most popular UI framework. The second you start building a SAAS product on top of those pages, you're not going to want to be in vanilla land.

Because you need a bit of CSS knowledge and to know how intersection observers have to be configured and then everything works with few lines of JS and CSS ... it's lightweight and SEO friendly and not bloated as if you use REACT.