Static medium size education site: Next.js vs "Plain" HTML/CSS/JS; Next.js vs Wix, WordPress site builders; Decap CMS for JSON data
This post branched off from my recent post: Building Test Static School Website: ... Using ThemeWagon Si-Education Next.js Template - Part 2 . Related ChatGPT (CG) chat: si-education adaptation Me: ... Now for some general thoughts. I would like to compare creation of this simple static (or mainly static) education site from a Next.js template like si-education, with other ways of creating static sites like using Wix or using plain HTML/CSS/JS templates. One point that struck me was that with this Next.js template, there was very good component-wise separation of code. if it was plain HTML/CSS/JS, that would perhaps be more difficult to achieve OR perhaps such HTML/CSS/JS templates may not have much separation of code into small files. Your comments please. CG: Your observation is correct, and it touches a fundamental trade-off in static site creation approaches rather than a superficial tooling difference. I will address this systematically and without evangelism. 1. What y...