Rebuilding Our Jekyll Website with Next.js and Theme UI

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Tailwind UI

The concept of utility classes had been around for a long time but utility frameworks like Tachyons and Tailwind took them to their logical conclusion.

#Design Tools #UI Design #Components Library 212 social mentions

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Tachyons

The concept of utility classes had been around for a long time but utility frameworks like Tachyons and Tailwind took them to their logical conclusion.

#CSS Framework #Design Tools #Development Tools 23 social mentions

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StaticGen

Years ago when we chose Jekyll there were perhaps too few static site generators to choose from, but now there are arguably too many. There’s even a website called StaticGen that lists them all!

#Developer Tools #Blogging #CMS 4 social mentions

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Next.js

That said, while there are a lot of options, when it comes to choosing a foundational tool like a framework that you’re going to sink a lot of time and effort into, it’s best to choose something with a big community. Gatsby and Next.js are the two most popular projects (by GitHub stars) so our choice was between them.

#Developer Tools #Web Frameworks #JavaScript Framework 1075 social mentions

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Jekyll

Jekyll was one of the first Ruby-based static site generators and is an impressive twelve years old now. In general it’s held up pretty well for us but one area where we really started to feel some pain was in the asset pipeline.

#CMS #Blogging #Blogging Platform 195 social mentions