As expected, the moment I got this blog up-and-running I completely forgot what I even wanted to write about in the first place.
I'm sure it'll come back to me, but in the meanwhile I might as well tell you about how I set this site up.
The Alright Gatsby
I picked Gatsby for its flexibility and familiarity (not with Gatsby itself, but with React and GraphQL). I briefly also considered Jekyll, but
then saw that it's built on Ruby. I'm not going to talk shit on something I've never tried, but I don't trust a language who's primary package manager
calls its packages RubyGems. I thought Rust was being cute with it's Cargo Crates, but this is next level.
I used the Typescript starter with some related plugins pre-installed, but no themes or templates. I couldn't find one I liked and assumed it wouldn't take too long
to slap some styles together.
For CSS, I went with the milligram stylesheet which I extended with my own colors and typography stuff. CSS modules came pre-installed, so I used those for all
stand-alone components. They're kind of a pain to use with typescript so I might install a CSS-in-JS library at some point instead.
These blog posts use MDX, which is just markdown with the option to embed JSX down the line if need be.
Conclusion
Err.. that's about it. It took me some six hours total to set this up, so it definitely delivered on efficiency. I also like the whole Local files -> GraphQL -> Build-time React props
workflow that's going on. Makes things very flexible.
I guess I'll also try to attach an image at the end here to see if that whole thing works. And maybe some code to check syntax highlighting as well.
Oh! And you can find the code for this site here in case you're curious
