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New static site generator tool releases seem to have superseded new js framework releases. I like the direction things are moving.

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It's good times :)

Next and Gatsby do too much for our use cases which are LOB applications. We've had to work around the idiosyncrasies of Next.js when we really don't need SSR nor its limited custom server support. Astro may be a closer fit for our needs.

It's nice to see more esbuild-based frameworks, sveltekit, astro ... The edit-save-refresh cycle is almost instanteous even on large projects. Something I can't say for Next.js.

Gatsby has a ton of magic... I use it but I rather skip it.

Next biggest thing will be a framework for a static site to generate a React app, that generates a static site, inside a web worker.

Do you mean https://wasp-lang.dev/ perhaps?

Every time I see this I get so excited until I realize again that I still have to know how to code in React, Node.js and Prisma.

If you have a whole is running in a web worker client-side that’s hardly “static” anymore. A site is static when the page is built beforehand and served from disk — or at most built JIT on the server and then cached.

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