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   Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Jan-2023 12:41:25 JST Alex Gleason

   Next.js is the most powerful new skill I’ve learned. Static sites, but you can author them in React, but it’s a static site, but you can also do client-side React. SEO and OpenGraph friendly, and you can fetch data from any source at build-time. Build with GitLab CI and deploy to GitLab Pages. Truly amazing.

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     NEETzsche (neetzsche@iddqd.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Jan-2023 12:43:20 JST NEETzsche

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     @alex Jekyll
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Jan-2023 12:43:20 JST Alex Gleason

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     • NEETzsche

     @NEETzsche Jekyll is tedious. Hugo is tedious. 11ty is tedious. The only other thing on the same level as Next.js is Gatsby, but I think Next.js is a little better.

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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Jan-2023 12:45:47 JST Alex Gleason

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     @meso Look at this page: https://soapbox.pub/donate/

     And then look at the source code, and how I’m fetching the crypto addresses from gleasonator.com at build time, and tell me it’s not amazing: https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/soapbox.pub/-/blob/main/pages/donate.tsx#L86

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     meso (meso@asbestos.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Jan-2023 12:45:48 JST meso

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     @alex this post gave me brain damage
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Jan-2023 12:50:44 JST Alex Gleason

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     • NEETzsche

     @NEETzsche I can build one-off pages in React: https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/soapbox.pub/-/blob/main/pages/about.tsx

     I can build a blog in MDX: https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/soapbox.pub/-/blob/main/_blog/soapbox-fe-v1.3-cryptocurrency-release.mdx

     I can also build one-off pages in MDX if it’s a content-heavy page: https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/soapbox.pub/-/blob/main/pages/install.mdx

     I can also do powerful things at build-time, such as fetching /api/v1/instance of a dozen servers to generate a page: https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/soapbox.pub/-/blob/main/pages/servers.tsx#L64

     This is all part of one comprehensive system.

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     NEETzsche (neetzsche@iddqd.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Jan-2023 12:50:45 JST NEETzsche

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     @alex why is Next.js better? Be honest, how much of your opinion comes from it being in JavaScript as opposed to Ruby?
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Jan-2023 12:52:45 JST Alex Gleason

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     • NEETzsche

     @NEETzsche I don’t believe it. Even if you could, it would be 10x harder.

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     NEETzsche (neetzsche@iddqd.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Jan-2023 12:52:46 JST NEETzsche

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     @alex I can do all that shit in Jekyll though
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     NEETzsche (neetzsche@iddqd.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Jan-2023 12:57:53 JST NEETzsche

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     @alex I wrote a comment system in Jekyll for iddqd.press, which would manually edit the files. There are these giant yaml blobs that would be used to pre generate the page every time someone posted a comment. It was this Rube Goldbergian mess, and I disabled it after a while, but only because I wanted to move comments to fedi. It worked just fine, though, and it was surprisingly simple to implement.
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Jan-2023 13:00:04 JST Alex Gleason

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     • Slower Mia

     @Mia You know, weirdos online often hate on good web software, but normal people disagree. And this is why soydevs get paid exorbitant salaries and weirdos online make “pure” ugly websites that only other weirdos online want to use.

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     Slower Mia (mia@k.posix.gay)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Jan-2023 13:00:06 JST Slower Mia

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     @alex this is the definition of bad web dev
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     MattZ (colinsmatt11@gleasonator.com)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Jan-2023 13:00:58 JST MattZ

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     @alex Have you considered Astro? You should because Next.js client side router might not be suitable for certain things.
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Jan-2023 13:08:04 JST Alex Gleason

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     @colinsmatt11 Astro looks interesting. The custom file format (.astro) is a bit of a turn-off. I don’t like that Vue does that either.

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     MattZ (colinsmatt11@gleasonator.com)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Jan-2023 13:59:17 JST MattZ

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     @alex I can understand but they're better than cjs exports (11ty).
     
     I would personally use VitePress if I wanted a static site.
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Jan-2023 14:02:55 JST Alex Gleason

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     • MattZ

     @colinsmatt11 The VuePress docs are amazing.

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     MattZ (colinsmatt11@gleasonator.com)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Jan-2023 14:54:57 JST MattZ

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     @alex VitePress isn't the same as VuePress. It's more agnostic than VuePress and better plugin support because vite and is also faster.
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     tbonesteaks (tbonesteaks@gleasonator.com)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Jan-2023 15:39:18 JST tbonesteaks

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     @alex Been reading the nextjs docs this week too. It is well thought out and full feature fo sho. Got tired of getting into niche frameworks that don’t make money. I know node & JavaScript, and I am just gunna go hard on them.
     
     If you want to look at a cool site using nextjs, check out the stacker.news repo: https://github.com/stackernews/stacker.news
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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Jan-2023 23:58:45 JST silverpill

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     • Slower Mia

     @alex @Mia

     >soydevs get paid exorbitant salaries

     Yes, but not because the software is actually good. It's just more complex, more difficult to learn.
     Also, webshit is self-perpetuating. I believe you're familiar with the need to rewrite your web application every year because the tooling and best practices are constantly changing. This creates a demand for high-skilled web developers, and as more websites switch to "modern" web tech, this demand is constantly increasing. So do the salaries.
     Those weird ugly websites don't have this problem - they could work for decades with minimal maintenance. Of course it's possible to create beautiful websites that require minimal maintenance, but people in the industry don't want lose their jobs, so it will take a while until the bubble pops and everyone realizes that weirdos were right all along.