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Discussion on: Fixes for Koken problems in 2020

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Alistair Shepherd

There may be some further Koken issues other than I'm aware of. Unfortunately it's a bit tricky to diagnose, your best bet will be to take a look at the error log of your hosting and it should point you in the right direction.

Personally I don't think it's worth upgrading jQuery, although it will likely have security bugs - as it's a frontend-only dependency and Koken has limited interactivity I don't think that the risk is significant compared to using a CMS without security updates.

As for the SSGs you mention, good question! The alternatives I listed are mostly focused at Photographers rather than developers so are designed to be fairly easy to set up.
Personally as a developer I would be using an HTML-only Static Site Generator like 11ty, or Hugo (although I don't know Go so it's less accessible for me). I don't really like Gatsby as a technology or company (that's something I won't get into now) but if your website has lots of dynamic functionality and is more app-like than website-like then Next.js (w/ Preact), Nuxt or Sapper would do a great job.
Of course then it's a lot harder to manage content so I'd also probably pair it with a headless CMS like Sanity, Forestry, or my favourite - WordPress!