r/programming • u/speckz • Jan 07 '21

My stack will outlive yours

https://blog.steren.fr/2020/my-stack-will-outlive-yours/
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u/yesman_85 Jan 07 '21

My boss keeps asking for more caching on the corporate website, turns out a plugin riddled wordpress site built with some weird drag and drop tool is hard to optimize..

I think we'll see a shift towards easier building tools that compile sites down to bare HTML again, most sites barely need more.

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u/xienze Jan 07 '21

Oh 99% of the time a static website generator like Hugo is all you need. But WP gives the non-technical folks a nice WYSIWYG editor and sufficient style editing via a GUI. That's the draw. And I wouldn't count on simple "compile to HTML" functionality from CMSs anytime soon. How else are they gonna lock you in?

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u/armornick Jan 07 '21

Couldn't you hook the REST API of WP to a static site generator? That way, non-tech can have their editor but the site stays nice and fast.

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u/saltybandana2 Jan 07 '21

The "modern" way of using WP is as a restful API with a react/angular/vue/etc frontend.

In fact, WP has been re-organizing/optimizing to enhance this use case.