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Discussion on: Gatsby Sparks Joy

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Andrew Healey

I've heard good things about Gridsome!

I've been using Vue at work lately and I'm really enjoying it so far 😊

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George Jempty

Thanks because VuePress just seems like overkill to me. Actually though, all these solutions do to a large extent (in my opinion).

Last year for a handful of articles on my github.io site I used my own fork of a static generator that works on the client side. It doesn't provide probably even 2% of the functionality that these other projects do and I largely just made some architectural improvements in my fork.

If you're interested in seeing what can be done with a client-side static content generator have a look at: github.com/dexygen/upstaged And here is the view source for an article on my github.io: view-source:dexygen.github.io/blog/articles/20...

If I could find a happy medium with just enough functionality for my needs and less complexity than most recommended solutions, I'd be quite happy

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Andrew Healey

I haven't seen an example of a client-side static content generator so that's cool.

My favorite blogs are almost just plain text (one, two). I'm always torn between complexity (features/easy tinkering) and simplicity too.

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George Jempty

Haha I hope the content is good because those go just a little too far in terms of plain. I did put in the work on upstaged to be able to incorporate it into an existing design, I don't know I might just give it a shot again, and it might spur me on to further improve it. Thing is because it's client side I will still need server side functionality for categorizing posts and creating menus and such.