I would amend this blog post's title to be the following: "The ideal tech stack for a personal developer blog in 2020 where the author is a React front end developer who loves TypeScript"
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#252"Even something simple (like the email newsletter signup form at the bottom of this page) would have been hard to implement without React" the fuck ?
"Hard" is the wrong term. But I'm certainly not alone in being rusty on this stuff. Uncontrolled components, form actions, imperatively reading all the values, `x-www-form-urlencoded` data, etc. If you use this stuff on a daily basis, then I'm sorry for your suffering. I haven't touched it since 2015.
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When did you start web development? Serious question. We went through all the ‘here to stay’ a few times over already. Cordova, Bootstrap, Backbone, Coffeescript, Angular, Grunt, Gulp, Require.js/AMD, I think we already moved into and out of React Native lol, that whole Mongo thing, everyone had to be a D3 expert almost at one point, isomorphic apps almost became the thing - Meteor, they were all here to stay.
> When did you start web development? Serious question The question wasn't addressed to me, but I'll answer anyway. I started in 1993 and released some widely used web software in 1994. In your last paragraph you list 13 technologies that supposedly "were all here to stay". If you asked me during the heyday of each technology whether it was here to stay, I would have answered "no" to 12 of them, and "I'm not sure" to…
Is TypeScript here to stay? It seems popular with frontend dev who like react. Not sure the general development community has bought in.
React hasn't reached jquery status yet. It does seem like it will be here forever but the next generation of frontend tools will look very different. Will react be amoung them? It's hard to make that jump because React is so great now why change it to match the next fad? But if they skip all fads will they miss the boat.
Is react good enough to say we can stop working on it? I don't think we know what react will end up like. It's doubtful it will be around in 20 years like php. I wouldn't bet on facebook being around after laws are passed limiting how they profit.
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#254Scans to see how he is dealing with native comments... Realises the issue remains unsolved, along with 99% of ’CMS’ solutions... Continues with Wordpress.
What do you mean exactly? Are you referring to adding a comments section to my blog? I didn't even consider doing that, but if you want that then Wordpress makes a lot of sense.
Yes, the title is ‘the ideal tech stack for a development blog...’
I consider commenting functionality an essential component of a tech blog so was hoping that was solved in the post. It isn’t, and it hardly ever is but I wish there were more choices in this regard
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This is so ridiculous coming from someone that did front end during the pre SPA days. I don’t event know where to start here . It’s a blog, not a complicated backend solution requiring a stack like this. Just throw in something simple to get the posts from the database and update the dates and you’re done . It’s over engineered and symptomatic of major issues in the front end community.
Having a database for a personal blog seems like overkill.
Not if your "database" is something like SQLite. That is preferable to most alternatives, if you actually want to manipulate data.
If the blog is not much more than a .PLAN file, sure is overkill. But having access to a DB and programming language opens up a few possibilities – and cleaner code compared to hacking some bash scripts doing text manipulation magic.
Now, starting with a database from day zero? I'd say it is a case of YAGNI. Don't add stuff you don't need now. If you need it in the future, then add it. But don't go paying for a hosted DB if a SQLite would suffice.
Oh, and even then, a database would be more useful for the site generation step. Having a DB being called for every page rendered is a recipe for going down with HN traffic (or Slashdot in the older days).
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> I literally have zero memory of how we used to build forms in the pre-React times. This is honestly quite a disturbing trend with a lot of front-end developers these days. I recently asked a front-end dev why they chose React for a simple app over simple server-side templating, he's reaction was "we don't need SEO, so why do we need React SSR", like how does that argument even make sense. They seem to have forgotte…
Is it really? You might as well say it's been a disturbing trend that developers aren't familiar with assembly language anymore. As abstraction on top of abstraction is created, it becomes easier and easier to write software, so naturally there are now more frontend devs who aren't familiar with web dev basics. And if all you have is a hammer, every problem will look like a nail. Similar trends happen for backend dev…
React solves multiple problems, sure. But I would say that templating isn’t one of them, and it definetly isn’t an abstraction to something more obscure.
You have this on the backend and devops side as well, but I would argue that most competent developers there know that there are other solutions.
Maybe my experience is more skewed towards front-end developers, but I would make the same statement about backend devs if they instantly choose one technology over the other, simply because that’s all they know. (Not even because they can defend that technology with reason)
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#257recommend taking a look at the newly released for Vue developers. https://www.npmjs.com/package/@nuxt/content
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Came here to say Hugo is the correct answer for a Personal Developer blog, unless you're using it to showcase your skills in a particular technology, at least in my experience. Finally dived into Hugo and it's just so easy to get going with making Markdown content and turning it into a static site with one of the themes from their gallery. There's a bit of a rabbit hole to go down if you want to get more custom than…
How do you host your site? I've been using Github Pages which has Jekyll support and that's worked fine, but I'm curious where people host their Hugo sites (or how hosting works when you run the server yourself). Is it AWS? Dreamhost? or something else? Do you have to manage a proxy or handle load/cost spikes? Can a surge of traffic take down the site? I haven't read a ton about this, but I'm curious about it. It'd b…
I haven't actually made it live yet, but it's just a static site once it's generated. I'll either push it to my github pages (probably what I'll do), or I'll upload it to my webhost, which I also have (but has been dormant for awhile).
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This meme is tedious. Typescript is here to stay. No question. React has been a thing now for what, six years? And it feels like 80% of FE job opening require React. And no major shift on the horizon.
Six years, roughly the time it took Angular to rise until version 2. Sorry for the sarcasm, I've been trying to learn web development for some months, starting with the basics (HTML, CSS, plain JS) and slowly adding more modern frameworks (Bootstrap, NodeJS, ...). The course is a few years old already and it feels like 80% of what I learn is now completely irrelevant. I just wonder how frontend developers keep up wit…
Are you taking colt Steele's web dev course on Udemy?
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> When did you start web development? Serious question The question wasn't addressed to me, but I'll answer anyway. I started in 1993 and released some widely used web software in 1994. In your last paragraph you list 13 technologies that supposedly "were all here to stay". If you asked me during the heyday of each technology whether it was here to stay, I would have answered "no" to 12 of them, and "I'm not sure" to…
Is TypeScript here to stay? It seems popular with frontend dev who like react. Not sure the general development community has bought in. React hasn't reached jquery status yet. It does seem like it will be here forever but the next generation of frontend tools will look very different. Will react be amoung them? It's hard to make that jump because React is so great now why change it to match the next fad? But if they…
Angular went all-in on TypeScript in a way that React still hasn't. The React crowd is the general development community, and TypeScript has expanded into it.