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My journey of building static websites

  1. Plain HTML and CSS;

  2. Write everything in React, build it with react-static;

  3. react-static is deprecated, switch to next.js;

  4. don't like next.js for some reason, then write a script to parse markdown file to HTML;

  5. Still like to use React, so switched to react-snap to build;

  6. react-snap doesn't work on WSL in Windows for some reason. So I built a rich text editor + an endpoint to upload the HTML to S3. I type and I click, then it's live. And fast.

For example this new site: mobilepdf.net

How do you build static websites?