This is wildly inaccurate and unrepresentative of the JAMstack ecosystem. I'd consider it downright naive to say there's "very little business value" in static sites.
Consider Gatsby, for example. This is an open source static site generator for React that recently raised $3.8M in funding and formed a business around static site development.
Or perhaps consider Contentful, a headless CMS popular in the JAMstack ecosystem. They just raised $28M in funding late last year.
If your clients are happy with WordPress, that's excellent. By all means stick to WordPress! Where I work, though, are clients are constantly demanding more modern toolsets and pushing the limits of what a website can be. For these clients, WordPress is not a solution in which they are interested. We work with Contentful, Gatsby, React, Serverless and more on a regular basis for some very high profile clients. I can assure you that these clients find substantial business value in these "static" websites.
We've come a long way from the previous generation of static site generators. With the ability to deploy highly dynamic, browser-based JavaScript applications to CDN's, the line between a static and a dynamic site has become increasingly blurred. Gatsby, for example, has started to move away from the term "static site generator" to avoid confusion here.
The clients with which we work are designing and requesting functionality that would not be maintainable were it implemented in a few hours with a suite of WordPress plugins, so reaching for these modern tools is much more feasible in my day-to-day work.
I strongly suggest reading up on some literature and case studies on jamstack.org/ or check out some of Gatsby's showcase to see just how much you can accomplish with these tools. You'll find sites with full login workflows, ecommerce, and more.
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This is wildly inaccurate and unrepresentative of the JAMstack ecosystem. I'd consider it downright naive to say there's "very little business value" in static sites.
Consider Gatsby, for example. This is an open source static site generator for React that recently raised $3.8M in funding and formed a business around static site development.
Or perhaps consider Contentful, a headless CMS popular in the JAMstack ecosystem. They just raised $28M in funding late last year.
If your clients are happy with WordPress, that's excellent. By all means stick to WordPress! Where I work, though, are clients are constantly demanding more modern toolsets and pushing the limits of what a website can be. For these clients, WordPress is not a solution in which they are interested. We work with Contentful, Gatsby, React, Serverless and more on a regular basis for some very high profile clients. I can assure you that these clients find substantial business value in these "static" websites.
We've come a long way from the previous generation of static site generators. With the ability to deploy highly dynamic, browser-based JavaScript applications to CDN's, the line between a static and a dynamic site has become increasingly blurred. Gatsby, for example, has started to move away from the term "static site generator" to avoid confusion here.
The clients with which we work are designing and requesting functionality that would not be maintainable were it implemented in a few hours with a suite of WordPress plugins, so reaching for these modern tools is much more feasible in my day-to-day work.
I strongly suggest reading up on some literature and case studies on jamstack.org/ or check out some of Gatsby's showcase to see just how much you can accomplish with these tools. You'll find sites with full login workflows, ecommerce, and more.