New Stack

[aensley]

Requirements

• First-class Blog support with tags and categories
• MarkDown or MDX source for content
• Search support
• Cloudflare pages support
• Syntax highlighting support

Wants

• Node-driven installation/build process
• TypeScript support

Considerations

• Rendered site performance (download size, and LCP metrics)
• Build performance
• Plugins
• Community support/development
• SEO

SSG

Next.js

Language: JavaScript, Templates: React

• https://jamstack.org/generators/next/
• https://nextjs.org/
• https://github.com/vercel/next.js/tree/canary/examples/blog-starter
• https://github.com/vercel/next.js/tree/canary/examples/blog-starter-typescript
• https://github.com/vercel/next.js/tree/canary/examples/cms-tina

Eleventy

Language: JavaScript, Templates: Liquid, Nunjucks, Handlebars, Mustache, EJS, Haml, Pug, JavaScript, HTML, Markdown

• https://jamstack.org/generators/eleventy/
• https://11ty.dev/
• https://github.com/11ty/eleventy

Astro

Language: JavaScript, Templates: Svelte, React, Preact, Vue, HTML

• https://jamstack.org/generators/astro/
• https://astro.build/
• https://github.com/snowpackjs/astro

Hugo

• https://jamstack.org/generators/hugo/
• https://gohugo.io/
• https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo

Theme

• https://html5up.net/
• https://bootstrapmade.com/members/
• https://bootswatch.com/

Content

• https://mdxjs.com/

Search

• https://lunrjs.com/
• https://fusejs.io/
• https://github.com/nextapps-de/flexsearch
• https://www.npmtrends.com/fuse.js-vs-lunr-vs-flexsearch
• https://bundlephobia.com/package/lunr@2.3.9
• https://www.libtrends.info/npm-compare/fuse.js-vs-lunr-vs-flexsearch
• https://nextapps-de.github.io/flexsearch/bench/

[aensley]

Removed UMI JS for being too simplistic.

[aensley]

• Next.js: Future of front-end development, huge community
• Eleventy: Dead simple SSG - lowest barrier
• Astro: Super performant page views, HTML-only, partial hydration
• Hugo: Fastest build times by far, huge community
• Docusaurus: First-class React and MDX support

[aensley]

Removed Hexo for having too small of a community

[aensley]

Current front-runner: Next.js