Building a blog with Explosiv

• explosiv

  6 55 2.5 JavaScript

  JSX-powered static site generator for Node.js

Explosiv ↗ is a NodeJS framework that uses JSX to render pages. It transforms .jsx files into .html files. That is: you write code that uses components, run js etc and Explosiv convert them into native HTML ready to be displayed to your favorite web browser.

• explosiv-blog

  1 0 0.0 JavaScript

  A simple blog created with Explosiv

We'll first talk about how the blog will be built. You can directly jump to the programming part or directly view the source code of the final blog on Github.

• 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 ↗ touts itself as a fast static site generator that also uses React. It is NOT fast ↗. It takes about 30 seconds to make a production build. Imagine what would happen if you customize your site. Plus there are also some features that I think are overkill like GraphQL integrations. I mean I get it, but I would like to install GraphQL as a plugin, not baked into my static site that won't use it

• Next.js

  2,040 120,313 10.0 JavaScript

  The React Framework

  

NextJS ↗ is a framework created by Vercel and it provides many features to build very complex web apps: API Routes, Internationalisation, Analytics, Typescript, Image Optimization. It's many features means you can use it to create any type of website, from TikTok to Twitch to others ↗. However this means that it's also pretty bloated for simple websites like blogs where you end up not using much of the features. And the site ends up containing many and many JS files you'll not use and takes some time to load.

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