Stacks for Simple Static Sites
Stacks for Simple Static Sites
Wouldn't it be great if you could type out an article on your computer, push a couple of buttons, and have it appear on the web? No clunky page builders, no admin logins, and no mandatory updates. With the right setup for your website, this is possible. I wrote about …
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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What would be the advantages of these methods over something like Neocities?
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.
I see, that makes sense
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.