Been using this the last week to convert an 11ty website and really enjoying it so far. Very cool to just be able to use whatever JS framework you want for a component and just drop it in.
Astro 1.0 – a web framework for building fast, content-focused websites
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Re: Astro 1.0 – a web framework for building fast, content-focused websites
#52Congrats guys. Astro+SolidJS is the future :)
Re: Astro 1.0 – a web framework for building fast, content-focused websites
#53Is there a static site generator out there that doesn't require a ridiculous build process every time I do an update? Inevitably, when a new "hot" SSG comes on the scene, I try it, and then go back to compare it to the old "hot" SSG from 2 years ago. Yet, I can never get the old test site I set up running again without massive annoyances. This has happened multiple times. As far as I'm concerned, there's zero reason…
> Is there a static site generator out there that doesn't require a ridiculous build process every time I do an update?
I am experimenting with Caddy's template functionality [0] in my pursuit of making dependency-free and buildless websites. Caddy's templates are inspired by the Server Side Include (SSI) functionality in Apache and Nginx, except it uses Golang's syntax. I have made several websites in Hugo and find it pleasantly similar, only more bear-bones.
Although Caddy is serving static sites to the browser, it is technically more like using a dynamic scripting language like PHP on the server. I guess Caddy templates outperform PHP by a large margin because it is written in Golang and compiled, but I have never tested this hypothesis.
Funfact: Caddy's entire website is written with Caddy's template system and the source code is available [1] for those who want to take a look!
[0] https://caddyserver.com/docs/modules/http.handlers.templates
Re: Astro 1.0 – a web framework for building fast, content-focused websites
#54Is there a static site generator out there that doesn't require a ridiculous build process every time I do an update? Inevitably, when a new "hot" SSG comes on the scene, I try it, and then go back to compare it to the old "hot" SSG from 2 years ago. Yet, I can never get the old test site I set up running again without massive annoyances. This has happened multiple times. As far as I'm concerned, there's zero reason…
Check out Eleventy[0] - written in JavaScript but largely no-nonsense with (relatively) few dependencies.
Re: Astro 1.0 – a web framework for building fast, content-focused websites
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
For me it's the pre-rendering. I've used Next.js, Nuxt.js, Remix etc and they all server-render great. But for deploying SPAs to file-hosting (S3 + Cloud Front or Firebase Hosting) without a server runtime, you end up with empty HTML on request which is worse for SEO, social previews etc. There are solutions to pre-rendering for these stacks but they're more focused on deploying to Vercel or Netlify functions, or hav…
I can just do a `nuxt generate` and put it on CF+S3 as well, right? how is that any different to what Astro does?
Looks the same to me after a quick read as someone who has never used an SSG BEFORE
Re: Astro 1.0 – a web framework for building fast, content-focused websites
#56I've used Astro my company's landing page for the past year or so [0]. We write blog posts in Notion and port them right to the site and the experience has been fantastic. There are a few understanding quirks with regard to using React etc within Astro (it's SSR'd unless you add the "client" attribute, and counter-intuitively the Component Lifecycle doesn't run the same). For client landing pages, we'll use Astro too…
Netlify recently changed their pricing structure, so if you are using Netlify CMS (or just Netlify Identity) with a private repo, every contributor to the repository (committer) will be charged as full pro seat. This can get really expensive if you have a few users working with the CMS (and thus committing content to the repository). We will move a few pages from Netlify now because of this change.
That pricing change only impacts private repos owned by organizations — you can still have private repos on a personal account and not be charged.
Re: Astro 1.0 – a web framework for building fast, content-focused websites
#57Is there a static site generator out there that doesn't require a ridiculous build process every time I do an update? Inevitably, when a new "hot" SSG comes on the scene, I try it, and then go back to compare it to the old "hot" SSG from 2 years ago. Yet, I can never get the old test site I set up running again without massive annoyances. This has happened multiple times. As far as I'm concerned, there's zero reason…
> Is there a static site generator out there that doesn't require a ridiculous build process every time I do an update? I am experimenting with Caddy's template functionality [0] in my pursuit of making dependency-free and buildless websites. Caddy's templates are inspired by the Server Side Include (SSI) functionality in Apache and Nginx, except it uses Golang's syntax. I have made several websites in Hugo and find…
To add onto this, we recently added plugin support for templates, so you can write your own template functions if you'd like! https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/pull/4757
Re: Astro 1.0 – a web framework for building fast, content-focused websites
#58Provide and migration path from Wordpress and I'm in!
Re: Astro 1.0 – a web framework for building fast, content-focused websites
#59Sometimes all the frameworks that re-invent MVC (but in a detached fashion) and tout "server side rendering" just feel like we've come full circle where we're just serving a static view cache that was generated from models and data using a controller.
The big difference here (as with other JavaScript-based renderers) is of course the "use one tool/language for everything" aspect which to me is a bit of a 'meh'-benefit.
At this point, while all the renderers get better and simpler, we're still in a situation where complexity or writing code hasn't really gone away, it just shifted around to new places. Perhaps at some point we get to the HTML + WebComponents stage again (kinda like MDX and React mixing), and classic Apache Server-Side Includes become the new hot thing again.
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#60It provides themes; as does Next.js/Versel, mui, etc. Are seasoned developers usually forking from these provided designs? What value do you guys ascribe to provided themes?