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Previously I have used Jekyll for blogging and it has served me well for simple blogs and static websites. Jekyll is a static site generator that relies on Markdown, Liquid, HTML, and CSS. Which means no JavaScript -- a Jamstack without the J. With GitHub Pages you can even host Jekyll sites directly from your repository.2
An even more advanced setup can use SWR to get stale-while-revalidate client side caching behavior with static pre-generated default data. Fast response with the ability to easily update any dynamic data from the client.
One example I like is this Static Tweet Demo by Vercel. Tweets are dynamic - the number of people commenting/liking/retweeting is constantly changing. But do you always need to show the latest numbers or can you live with slightly stale data?
Which makes NextJs a Jamstack+ framework - I can use static generation for some pages and client/server side where static is not suitable. This makes NextJs very flexible as it is not just a Jamstack but a full-fledged React framework with everything you could ask for.
Previously I have used Jekyll for blogging and it has served me well for simple blogs and static websites. Jekyll is a static site generator that relies on Markdown, Liquid, HTML, and CSS. Which means no JavaScript -- a Jamstack without the J. With GitHub Pages you can even host Jekyll sites directly from your repository.2
For other projects I use (and love) NextJs. NextJs supports multiple data fetching options:
Previously I have used Jekyll for blogging and it has served me well for simple blogs and static websites. Jekyll is a static site generator that relies on Markdown, Liquid, HTML, and CSS. Which means no JavaScript -- a Jamstack without the J. With GitHub Pages you can even host Jekyll sites directly from your repository.2
The definition according to Jamstack.org:
My blog is built with Astro, a framework for content-focused websites. It's the first time I try the framework so I don't have much experience with it. But so far so good.