hugo-site VS Next.js

This month, I took my site squarely into npm-ville when I brought in the npm version of Sass and added PostCSS to make "future" CSS work with current browsers. As it turns out, those changes made my site an unexpectedly appropriate target for the use case that Hugo Installer presents. I’m sure I’ll find nits to pick over time but, for now, I’m impressed by what I’ve seen.

Fortunately, while there are limits to how much you’ll be able to improve your experience with online search in general, you can optimize your own website’s search capabilities. That’s assuming, of course, that your website is built with a static site generator (SSG), as I’ve recommended on my own website over the years, and has search capabilities in the first place. If it lacks search, you can fix that readily enough with the free Pagefind tool about which I wrote earlier this year.

In Line 2 of the partial that I use for the search bar and results, I comment out the line of code that calls to the Pagefind CSS. (I derived it from the Pagefind documentation.) It's this step for which I can't find the corresponding code in your repo, but I'm sure you know where it is; and that's the key to this.

(a.) My own site, https://www.brycewray.com --- currently hosted on Cloudflare Pages, although it's also been on other Jamstack hosts such as Netlify, Vercel, and (briefly) Render.

although I (b.) also sometimes put stuff on dev.to.

Thanks! I will at some point. The code — in its current, very “as-is” state — is in my repo at (as of now) https://github.com/brycewray/hugo_site/blob/main/layouts/partials/webmentions-pipes.html if you can bear its spaghetti-ness. But, assuming you mean you’ll want a walk-through explanation: yes, that’s yet to come. There are some things I need to refine, first.

When I have the code somewhat DRY-er, I’ll write about it. In the meantime, I’ve left the following comment within the webmentions-pipes partial template I’m using to suck all this into each applicable post, just in case the curious happen to find that partial on the site repo:

By Bryce Wray

Having just moved my own site to Astro yesterday after a week or two of experimentation and grunt work, I can offer some opinions which may help you with that question. I’ll go through the “boxes” which I believe any SSG or other website development platform should “check” before you should give it a shot at this task, along with how I judge Astro’s ability to do so in each case.

Next.js is a powerful React framework that enables developers to build server-rendered applications, static websites, and more. It's designed for production and provides features like automatic code splitting and optimized prefetching.

// source: https://github.com/vercel/next.js/blob/canary/packages/next/src/lib/worker.ts#L121C15-L129C16 for (;;) { onActivity() const result = await Promise.race(\[ (this.\_worker as any)\[method\](...args), restartPromise, \]) if (result !== RESTARTED) return result if (onRestart) onRestart(method, args, ++attempts) }

https://github.com/vercel/next.js/discussions/27666 One of them said 'renaming folder to uppercase' might cause trouble. git might not recognize case-sensetive changes by default.

Next.js has long cemented itself as one of the front runners in the web framework world for JavaScript/TypeScript projects so we’re going to be using that. More specifically we’re going to be using V14 of Next.js which allows us to use some exciting new features like Server Actions and the App Router.

Web frameworks like Next.js will usually include this feature, but do check that they set the caching headers correctly!

Vite and Next.js are both top 5 modern development framework right now. They are both great depending on your use case so we’ll discuss 4 areas: Architecture, main features, developer experience and production readiness. After learning about these we’ll have a better idea of which one is best for your project.

> It’s important to be aware of what you are getting if you go with React, and what you are getting is a far cry from what a framework would offer, with all the corresponding pros and cons.

Would you like to elaborate on that?

In my experience, with something as great, size/ecosystem-wise as React, there will almost always be at least one "mainstream" package for whatever you might want to do with it, that integrates pretty well. Where a lot of things might come out of the box with a framework, with a library I often find myself just needing to install the "right" package, and from there it's pretty much the same.

For example, using https://angular.io/guide/i18n-overview or installing and using https://react.i18next.com/

Or something like https://angular.io/guide/form-validation out of the box, vs installing and using https://formik.org/

Or perhaps https://angular.io/guide/router vs https://reactrouter.com/en/main

Even adding something that's not there out of the box is pretty much the same, like https://primeng.org/ or https://primereact.org/

React will typically have more fragmentation and therefore also choice, but I don't see those two experiences as that different. Updates and version management/supply chain will inevitably be more of a mess with the library, admittedly.

Now, projects like Next https://nextjs.org/ exist and add what some might regard as the missing pieces and work well if you want something opinionated and with lots of features out of the box, but a lot of those features (like SSR) are actually pretty advanced and not always even necessary.

Next.js: For the website and the admin dashboard

Until the time of writing, there is no official example of how to enable runtime environmental variables in a Dockerized Next.js app, as utilizing unstable_noStore would only dynamically evaluate variables on the server (node.js runtime). There is also an interesting discussion regarding this topic on GitHub.

next.js is a very popular React framework. remix-adonisjs includes more functionality through the AdonisJS backend ecosystem, and should be easier to self-host and self-manage.