Would WordPress have been a better tool for building my site?

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  • TypeScript-Node-Starter

    Website I (John Reed) built by modifying TypeScript-Node-Starter seed app. (by JohnReedLOL)

  • A few years ago, I built the website https://sea-air-towers.herokuapp.com/ whose code is at https://github.com/JohnReedLOL/TypeScript-Node-Starter . It's a site that helps people who annualy rent units in this beachfront vacation condo building find other units in the same building to rent next year (my mom is president of the building and asked me, with my bachelor's in Computer Science, to build the site for her). I built it by forking and then building on top of the TypeScript Node.js starter seed application code at https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript-Node-Starter . I chose this TypeScript seed because I prefer TypeScript over JavaScript due to the types and the JavaScript seed (that the TypeScipt seed which I chose was based on) which is at https://github.com/sahat/hackathon-starter has a ton of stars on GitHub, so I assumed it was a good seed for building a site. The thing is, looking back, I wonder if maybe WordPress would have been a better tool to build this site. Two questions:

  • TypeScript-Node-Starter

    Discontinued A reference example for TypeScript and Node with a detailed README describing how to use the two together.

  • A few years ago, I built the website https://sea-air-towers.herokuapp.com/ whose code is at https://github.com/JohnReedLOL/TypeScript-Node-Starter . It's a site that helps people who annualy rent units in this beachfront vacation condo building find other units in the same building to rent next year (my mom is president of the building and asked me, with my bachelor's in Computer Science, to build the site for her). I built it by forking and then building on top of the TypeScript Node.js starter seed application code at https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript-Node-Starter . I chose this TypeScript seed because I prefer TypeScript over JavaScript due to the types and the JavaScript seed (that the TypeScipt seed which I chose was based on) which is at https://github.com/sahat/hackathon-starter has a ton of stars on GitHub, so I assumed it was a good seed for building a site. The thing is, looking back, I wonder if maybe WordPress would have been a better tool to build this site. Two questions:

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  • hackathon-starter

    A boilerplate for Node.js web applications

  • A few years ago, I built the website https://sea-air-towers.herokuapp.com/ whose code is at https://github.com/JohnReedLOL/TypeScript-Node-Starter . It's a site that helps people who annualy rent units in this beachfront vacation condo building find other units in the same building to rent next year (my mom is president of the building and asked me, with my bachelor's in Computer Science, to build the site for her). I built it by forking and then building on top of the TypeScript Node.js starter seed application code at https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript-Node-Starter . I chose this TypeScript seed because I prefer TypeScript over JavaScript due to the types and the JavaScript seed (that the TypeScipt seed which I chose was based on) which is at https://github.com/sahat/hackathon-starter has a ton of stars on GitHub, so I assumed it was a good seed for building a site. The thing is, looking back, I wonder if maybe WordPress would have been a better tool to build this site. Two questions:

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