Discussion on: Getting ready for my first website: Choosing the right platform

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For me, I wanted to build a website for learning purposes

This can be used to justify about everything so it doesn't really narrow things down.

I wanted to be able to share my knowledge with others and help them learn new things, I also wanted to be able to connect with other like-minded individuals.

This sounds like a blog with perhaps a comment section.

From my perspective your research was fairly narrow.

There are two articles that may be helpful

Patterns for Building JavaScript Websites in 2022

Ryan Carniato for This is Learning ・ Jun 8 ・ 9 min read

#javascript #webdev #patterns #architecture

and experiences. Web. frameworks. future. me.

This should give you the wide 20,000 foot view of what is going on right now.

So my inclination would be to give Astro a very good look.

It's a good foundation to build something fairly simply but supported by a good set of tooling that is improving all the time.
There is plenty of flexibility to add more functionality to pages with framework components (React, Preact, Svelte, Vue, SolidJS, AlpineJS, Lit).

So you could start with SSG functionality for content with markdown and MDX then perhaps add social networking related client side functionality with webmention, Staticman, utterances, or some other way novel way.

ecyrbe • Aug 9 '22

You all should read this

Anna Baker • Aug 9 '22

Thank you for the suggestions! I will check them out.