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Re:Choose Boring Technology (2015) by ashildr on Sunday June 07, 2020 @06:08AM (#23446178)
The young people in my company made sure our webpage is a react app.

I gave in because they are having fun and it looks good, but it could have been done in static html (maybe using a generator) way more easily.

It hurts me everytime I‘m thinking about it.

Re:Choose Boring Technology (2015) by bottled_poe on Sunday June 07, 2020 @10:26AM (#23447549)
Ask them how they’ve addressed SEO. I doubt there’s a good answer. In my experience you’re better off just using Wordpress for a marketing website. It already does the vast majority of what a marketing website needs. Now, a rich web portal/SaaS product is a different story. Choosing the right tool for the job only comes with experience.
Re:Choose Boring Technology (2015) by agustif on Sunday June 07, 2020 @07:59AM (#23446752)
You could suggest them to use React/NextJS, but publish a static export (yarn export) which is the buildtime compiled HTML+CSS+JS from react, but without needing anything else.

Works well for static pages, this is what I did so II could use next/react and deploy to a boring LAMP server we have for our landing pages.

Re:Choose Boring Technology (2015) by bottled_poe on Sunday June 07, 2020 @10:27AM (#23447561)
Don’t do this. I’ve just been through the process. Trust me. For a marketing website just use Wordpress and save your time for something more valuable.
Re:Choose Boring Technology (2015) by agustif on Monday June 08, 2020 @01:35PM (#23458670)
It works for me, already shipped. A bit late for the advice I guess. Use what you know?
Re:Choose Boring Technology (2015) by cutemonster on Monday June 08, 2020 @02:58PM (#23459605)
Works for me too -- for me, Gatsby or Hugo etc are quicker and simpler than WP

Especially long term wrt security