When I first set out at creating my first website I was bombarded with information about technology stacks.
I remember reading a post on Tomshardware saying something along the lines…
“Just use prebuilt website builder because the more time you spend on maintaining your website the less you focus on the content”, and another user saying “maintaining it will be a nightmare, pay a developer to make and maintain it for you”
All the communities directly involved with web development were using technology stacks to create web-apps.
I took Reddit where I thought I was going to get the real low down on what to use. I was just bombarded with threads of people arguing about whether MERN vs MEAN, was the best stack option.
I was giving up I felt I was over-engineering something that was supposed to just be a static website.
Just before I got out my credit card and signing up for wordpress I found a website discussing…
No hosting fee’s 🤑
Deploy a high performance, high security with all the benefits of a co-current development experience static webpage at 0 marginal cost. I was sold.
the only question was what language I was to develop in…
I was familiar with React and had built small projects before with it. But because of the community articles, I had a good understanding of the idea of JSX, virtual DOM and reusable components and I loved programming using React it was just easy.
Enter Gatsby.Js ⚛️
The incentive was laid out in learning Gatsby.Js and it was so easy to get started with its library of starters which you can build from…
Continous delivery pipeline
Every time I make a new commit and push to github netlify automatically deploys. Simple as that.
Check out my lighthouse score here.
