The ideal tech stack for a personal developer blog in 2020
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#3> I worry that many developers (maybe even you, dear reader) are settling for suboptimal, restrictive static-site generators that place limits on the interactivity and flexibility of your website.
I wonder what sort of interactivity you want on your text?
> This degrades page load speeds and user experience, which accordingly degrades your rankings on Google. Instead I want every page of my site to be pre-rendered to a set of fully static assets
Oh, you want a static site. That's what I want too.
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#4Why reinvent the wheel? Use Wordpress/Ghost etc
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#5Personally I work in tech all day, I want my blog to be as simple as possible and to focus just on my writing.
Still using Jekyll.
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#6Here's my stack: I write .html files in GNU Nano, and serve them with Apache. I've done that for about 20 years (with varying editors and servers), and I don't see why it needs to be any more complicated putting words on the internet.
Yes yes, old man yells at cloud etc, but I'm a strong believer in "less is more".
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#7As a non-React developer: forms, before React, were actually super simple. The author mentions they forgot how to do forms the normal way, but like, can you imagine how excited they'll be by the simplicity?
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#8> Next.js is quickly eating everyone else's lunch in this market, especially Gatsby's (sorry Gatsby fans).
Can someone comment on the latest version of Next vs Gatsby?
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#9Creating your own stack for your personal blog seems to be the modern-day equivalent to creating your own programming language: it's a huge time sink with virtually no sane justification, yet developers are drawn to it like moths to a flame.
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#10A personal blog should be whatever the author wants it to be of course, and a developer should play with whatever technology he/she wants. But as a backend developer, I don't want any Javascript on my site, because I hate writing it and I don't like browsing it.
These statements indicate to me that this "ideal tech stack" is rather personal to the author:
> I want to build the site in React and TypeScript
> I don't want limitations on what my personal website can be/become. Sure, my current site consists of two simple, static blog posts. But down the road, I may want to...
> I literally have zero memory of how we used to build forms in the pre-React times.
I think I'll keep it at Hugo for now, with just HTML and CSS.