Why You Shouldn't Use a Static Site Generator for Your Next Blog

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After 4 years of putting it off, 1 year of tinkering, a month of work, and $1500 of hired help, my new blog is finally here 🎉 Here’s what I learned.

Last December, I switched my blog over to a static page generated by a vanilla NodeJS script. So far, its been a dream come true. Thanks to Cesar Devers’ design skills, the blog is far more readable than the old standard WordPress template. Also, I can write my posts in Markdown, which has done wonders for my workflow. I also have more direct control over my layout and analytics, so I can use KeenIO to track some basic metrics. Getting to this new blog infrastructure was an adventure. I had brief flings with many static site generators before settling on my current setup. In this article, I’ll explain why I decided to skip out on all the established tools and just write my own solution.

Something cool that was introduced in JavaScript ES6 is Template Literals. You might wonder, what the hell are Template Literals Chris, and more importantly, why do I even need them? Template Literals are a very quick and widely adopted new way of de…