How I created my blog with Gatsby, Netlify, and Plausible.

• Plausible Analytics

  304 18,286 9.8 Elixir

  Simple, open source, lightweight (< 1 KB) and privacy-friendly web analytics alternative to Google Analytics.

  

After some research, I found Plausible. It provides simple analytics with some easy-to-understand dashboards. Also, at least from my point of view, it has some important advantages:

• react-helmet

  58 17,223 0.0 JavaScript

  A document head manager for React

  

React Helmet package: it adds metadata into the web page, which is very important for SEO.

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io sponsored

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• Gatsby

  356 55,000 9.4 JavaScript

  The best React-based framework with performance, scalability and security built in.

  

Gatsby.

• pages-gem

  586 1,808 8.1 Ruby

  A simple Ruby Gem to bootstrap dependencies for setting up and maintaining a local Jekyll environment in sync with GitHub Pages

  

Once we have the content for our blog, we need to host it somewhere. I had experience with Github pages for hosting some pages before, but I decided to try Netlify and I finally chose it. It provides some advantages:

• Hugo

  548 72,452 9.8 Go

  The world’s fastest framework for building websites.

  

I’m not experienced in Gatsby at all, making this blog was my first experience with this framework. After being checked some other tools like Hugo that also met my requirements, I decided to give Gatsby a try, as I'm more familiar with its ecosystem.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

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