[doublejosh]

I would ALMOST agree.

Five years ago I dove into using an ultra-light-weight framework called MetalsmithJS. It's super minimal, but does what you need. I'd spent 10 years using the Drupal monolith, and did not regret the move. Yet it's open-source community dried up, but mostly because the framework does what it claims and then stopped expanding!

Here's a blog post... https://doublejosh.com/post/186193119278/metalsmithjs-is-sti...

Then two years ago I needed a more robust SSR system based on React, so I went with GatsbyJS. It's insanely mature and intuitive, but as we all know that community and business is now drying up too. But the framework is still great.

Now everyone sings the praises of NextJS, which can be used for SSR but is intended for applications and active server endpoints. But more complexity doesn't mean better.

I'm keen to try other simple frameworks when the result is a static site. I may give https://www.11ty.dev a shot.

[mp05]

I built my own static site generator with Drupal 8 for a project. It was a good experience and made my company a lot of money.

We went with Gatsby for our overhaul and honestly, not looking back unless forced to. I realize it doesn't scale all that well but we're at ~10,000 pages and our build time is about 8 minutes without a lot of optimization. Given our refresh interval is 15 minutes, nothing to worry about from my perspective.

People keep chattering that NextJS might suit our needs better but GatsbyJS sure ain't broke.