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Stacks for Simple Static Sites (fd93.me)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey, just wanted to drop this here. It's a technical follow-up to The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Static Sites which was reasonably popular, and explains the components of a static site's stack.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

For me, I write notes in Markdown anyways as part of a Zettelkasten, and by setting up my site this way I can stay in my development / note taking environment (nvim) and push stuff up to the site very quickly. It's far easier as a developer to work off-the-cuff with this type of workflow, at least for me.

Also, would be very easy to self-host or move provider if Vercel or any other provider goes down.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I see, that makes sense

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I use Markdown with Jekyll because it integrates nicely with GitHub Pages and I can run it locally for authoring. There's tons of support for it, as far as I can tell. Jekyll uses Liquid for templating, and it seems pretty good. For layout, I use Minimal Mistakes which has a really nice feel and it's comparatively easy to customize. Once I was through all the layout configuration stuff, it's really just a matter of writing articles and pushing them up to GitHub - rarely fiddle with anything technical these days.