HACKER Q&A
📣 spacebuffer

Which tech stack for creative blogs?


by creative blogs: I mean ones where you can customize specific article pages easily, to change the styling, add interactive demos, etc..

Examples:

1. this Reuters article https://www.reuters.com/graphics/TENNIS- WIMBLEDON/GRAPHIC/lbvggkzjmvq/

2. anything by Bartosz Ciechanowski

For my blog (yusuf.fyi) I used to MDX to do this, but I have since moved on from the react ecosystem and want something lower level. especially since my site got vendor-locked in an old astrojs version and I am struggling to upgrade it.

  👤 Redster Accepted Answer ✓
I wanted a stack where .md posts would look good by default, but I could make custom pages with javascript-based demos and interactivity trivially. I'm experimenting with and like the Astro ecosystem so far. So far the defaults seem intelligent and I couldn't believe how fast setting up pagefind was and how much better the results were than the other static site search engines I had tried.

(I'm coming from the Svelte and Sveltekit ecosystem, which I also like.)