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I developed and maintained the landing page for a top-100 website that was powered by Contentful, ExpressJS and aggressive in-memory caching. The setup was very

• xupybd 8y ago
  Yeah, you are right. It can be done. But the bulk of the sites I've seen have some cludge that crept in somewhere. Someone installs a broken plugin or writes a custom tweak and things start to fall over. The beauty of static content is this just doesn't happen. You also get some security through simplicity. I suspect you are very good at what you do. A lot of people are not so good at maintaining an operating site. Especially not a top 100 level. That said it's a trade off. For every advantage there is a disadvantage. Having to compile to push changes is not without it's headaches. Using external services for comments and other things can run you into all sorts of cors hell.
• flukus 8y ago
  Can be done doesn't mean it's a good tool for the job. I don't know enough about wordpress to say but I've seen some big sites built off sharepoint and "can be done" involved an extraordinary amount of manpower and working around sharepoint rather than with it. Those details get left out of the case studies.