So you got me to look more into Gatsby because it's good they're interested in performance, and what's interesting is it seems to automate the pre-fetching and lazy-prefetch based on if the link is visible (that I can get more on board with). That's really nice and also overall (especially with the GraphQL querying) it seems to be better suited for blogs than Nuxt so I can see where you're coming from. I wouldn't use it because React, but it does sound nice.
> I'm confused by what you meant by "you can't take advantage of your framework to generate image tags".
I mean that the framework needs to be handed the final html. It has no knowledge about the formatting inside a post. You
have to rely on plugins, often third-party, which don't play well with each other.
I know I've gone on about bundle size (that was just the straw that broke the camel's back) but my main problem is that these frameworks don't help in going from the markdown to the final html which is 90% of the work. I'm not saying they should or can, just they don't, so they don't add enough value imo to be worth the overhead. This is true of all SSGs I've tried though. Yeah they always have a markdown plugin and, for example, that image loading plugin does sound really cool, but can I trust them to work nicely with other plugins? Do the plugins I need even exist? Will they be maintained? I can just feel I will end up fighting them and I've wrestled with too many SSGs already. I'd rather just try to roll my own at this point.
> I'm confused by what you meant by "you can't take advantage of your framework to generate image tags".
I mean that the framework needs to be handed the final html. It has no knowledge about the formatting inside a post. You have to rely on plugins, often third-party, which don't play well with each other.
I know I've gone on about bundle size (that was just the straw that broke the camel's back) but my main problem is that these frameworks don't help in going from the markdown to the final html which is 90% of the work. I'm not saying they should or can, just they don't, so they don't add enough value imo to be worth the overhead. This is true of all SSGs I've tried though. Yeah they always have a markdown plugin and, for example, that image loading plugin does sound really cool, but can I trust them to work nicely with other plugins? Do the plugins I need even exist? Will they be maintained? I can just feel I will end up fighting them and I've wrestled with too many SSGs already. I'd rather just try to roll my own at this point.