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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 dev

• mjburgess 6y ago
  I went in thinking, "probably a static github io page, right?". I said, out loud, at the first heading: "are you insane?"
  • FlyingSnake 6y ago
    I was surprised as well. Sane developers should stick to Jekyll or Hugo.
  • fmajid 6y ago
    Yep, the use of JS here is a solution in search of a (first world) problem. You have some content you want to share with people, along with a smattering of organization via navigation, categories and tags, some local search and possibly commenting.
• _Understated_ 6y ago
  That page of just text is a 1Mb download... Is this what the web has become now? Do we really need 1Mb of boilerplate for 10Kb of text?
  • jmondi 6y ago
    I don't know where you got 1MB, the page for me was 363.09KB with caching off. That said, I do that React+TypeScript is overkill for a personal blog.
    • capableweb 6y ago
      Parent seems to talk about unpacked. I'm also getting 356.24 KB transferred but whole 957.53 KB of unpacked data, which is absolutely crazy for a static page with no interactivity nor media.
    • _Understated_ 6y ago
      Yes you're right, my mistake! I just saw the headline figure but still... it's only text! I have developed stuff in react (among other things too) but horses for courses: this is an html website with some javascript sprinkles, so it should be tiny imo.
  • wolco 6y ago
    This is what happens when you tell new developers php isn't cool anymore.
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