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by jonjon10002 1673 days ago
Markdown, Gatsby. Source is in GitHub, GHA builds the HTML output, then schleps it over to an S3 bucket.

I inherited this setup. Works great from my end, but we've got an engineering team that set it up and owns the plumbing of everything. That's key, because many orgs have a "we set it up, now it runs forever and you deal with it" mentality. And Gatsby has a super steep learning curve. And I'm not a designer.

Previously used Jekyll and still use it (minimally) for my blog. Jekyll is okay but once you get past a couple hundred pages, performance gets exponentially worse. Had a site with a few thousand pages, and builds would take an hour or more. And that org had the aforementioned problem. A team designed it, then got laid off, and I'm trying to read a dummies book to figure out what size hammer to hit the thing with.

I've been in this for 25 years, so I've used about everything else. Flare, DITA, FrameMaker, RoboHelp, PageMaker. No typewriters, thankfully.