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This problem has been solved a thousand times over with much simpler tooling.
> I literally have zero memory of how we used to build forms in the pre-React times.
:(
Why reinvent the wheel? Use Wordpress/Ghost etc
I’d worry that some less experienced folks might take it at face value, rather than as a salient warning about the dangers of grossly over-engineering for no discernible benefit.
Static generation is a big part of JAMstack. Headless CMS means that the CMS only does the CMS part, and then you can plug Hugo, Gatsby or anything that you want with it.
Why reinvent the wheel? Use Wordpress/Ghost etc
Because writing your own blog engine is a good way to learn various web technologies that you haven't had a chance to use.
I’m sorry, but this is ridiculous for a static site. React and Typescript with embedded markdown? This problem has been solved a thousand times over with much simpler tooling. > I literally have zero memory of how we used to build forms in the pre-React times. :(
When you already know Git & GitHub, you get an all-in-one experience with your code & website side by side.
Personally 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.
Even with ~300 posts and ~100 drafts it only takes 2 seconds to see auto-reloaded updates when I'm actively writing. That's within WSL 1 too (room for speed improvements are there with WSL 2).
It also has nice plugins to process SCSS and bundle your CSS / JS, along with md5 tagging all static files for cache busting without having to use Webpack or do anything complicated. You just reference them using a specific plugin's template tag. But at the same time you can choose to use Webpack if you'd like.
I'm not sure why the author mentioned Jekyll is too restrictive. You can write plugins to do some pretty custom things. Like, I wrote a few lines of Ruby to parse out time stamps from a list to make them clickable links so that I can jump to that position in a custom audio player, very similar to how clickable time stamps work on Youtube. You can pretty much do anything.