Say Goodbye to Hexo, Ghost, and Gatsby

Why I built this blog

I consider my self more of a backend engineer than a frontend engineer. The frontend world evolves so fast that someone started frontend with dreamweaver and XMLHttpRequest is really hard to catch up.

When it comes to building a blog, I always choose static site generators like Hexo, Ghost, and Gatsby.

Recently I've been busy building some portfolios that requires some home page, landing page, and blog page.

With the help of v0, cursor, I can build a website in a way that I never thought possible.

At first, I was worry about the SEO of the website. I was still in the mindset that react sites are not SEO friendly. But I was wrong.

nextjs has a wonderful feature called static exports. It outputs the html of the website, which is boost for SEO.

Now, here is the blog system I vibe built. after v0 generated the website, I just talk to cursor for half days. And it's alive.

I'm not a designer. I can't design a website that is good looking. But with the help of cursor, the logo, the icon and the styles are all done.

So, to me, I see no reason to use Hexo, Ghost, and Gatsby any more. I can still write markdown, and a npm run build will get everything posted.

I will use this blog to get familiar with the frontend world, while tweaking, blogging, and coding.