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Former webdev, so don’t really understand the industry too well, but my sense is that Wordpress is the lowest hanging fruit if you need customer facing CMS, or
by sroerick 2y ago
Former webdev, so don’t really understand the industry too well, but my sense is that Wordpress is the lowest hanging fruit if you need customer facing CMS, or e-commerce, or any number of other plug and play features.
Hugo might be easier as long as there’s no customer facing CMS, but as soon as you introduce that back into the mix it’s significantly worse. I heard if one shop using CraftCMS successfully but they weren’t really super content forward.
Thus, to cover the spectrum of needs, it just makes sense to have a Wordpress stack - one team of developers, on team of technologies.
Hugo is great, but I haven’t used it a ton. For a lone wolf dev maintaining a personal site, probably the way to go. I built some sites with Gatsby and having to do Node updates was actually way worse than Wordpress updates, and required a much higher skill level to accomplish.
- pier25 2y agoWith most static hosting services you can simply deploy a folder named /functions alongside your static files and that's pretty much all you need to run server-side JS.
- sroerick 2y agoSure, but you don’t really have read/write capability. As an example, I set up an e-commerce store on Gatsby using server side JS, but I was reliant on the hosted Stripe product CMS API, which ultimately wasn’t a great user or development experience
- pier25 2y ago> Sure, but you don’t really have read/write capability Not sure what you mean. You can use any DB you like. There are even storage services like CF Workers KV if you don't need relations etc.