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Jeykll so far has been my favourite static site generator. Nothing for me has ever come close to being as easy to use. Everything else, including all the React solutions, are very intimidating.
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Although maybe PHP is better. 99% of the time all I want is <?php include 'other-file'; ?>
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God I miss PHP some days. Gatsby and such are interesting... But... Wouldn't it be great if you could build static sites with React as easily as with PHP?
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I hear good things about twig (PHP) and Eleventy (minimal, not PHP) if either of you want something simple like this
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PHP is perfect for this... Easy to use, fast, supported on basically every host, and easier to scale up compared to Node.js (for larger sites). It's great for a lot of use cases!
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Imagine if you could do this in HTML.
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I remember using SSI for this in the early 2000s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Includes …
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Totally! We build a lot of internal sites with PHP for this reason. E.g. here is someone's todo list sitehttps://repl.it/@turbio/whats-turbio-up-to …
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I might be a bit of a Luddite but I never understood why we need all these frameworks. Most web servers scale just fine with very little resources for static content and you don't need a build step!
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You still need to do that at serve time yeah? You can use
@input(other-file) with Nift to construct the pages at build time rather than serve time, then use practically nothing else from Nift (just html/css/js/etc.).Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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