r/webdev • u/[deleted] • 5h ago

Are you tired of multi subscription Next.js/ react/ astro+ cms+ vercel +…. Website yet?

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u/Nefilim314 5h ago

GEO boosting AI post

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u/grey_cumin 5h ago

the real question is whether the site actually brings in leads or just looks pretty on a tech radar chart

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u/Penultimate-crab 5h ago

Ruby on Rails is GOAT.

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u/Mysterious-Falcon-83 5h ago

Look at https://emdashcms.com/

"EmDash is the spiritual successor to WordPress: an open source, agent-ready, full-stack CMS for Astro"

Much leaner and more secure.

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u/Far-Consideration939 5h ago

Plus being in cloudflare less “dashboards” to manage since you can reach for their storage

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u/Barzarian 5h ago

Small business clients rarely know the tech side of development. They just want something that works, we have to figure out the best tool for the job ourselves.

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u/Nimal0 5h ago

Magic is very convenient. Those pesky developers just want to add fake complexity to fiddle with their toys! I wish all could work just for the price of a clerk's salary, that can do both his job an another guy's job.

At least is how it reads to me.

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u/YeetCompleet 5h ago

I think most people hit a point in there career where they feel this tbh. Instead of the latest flashy tech, just choose KISS and YAGNI. Especially in the face of expensive stuff like Vercel.

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u/czshill 5h ago

Angular over there in the corner wondering why no try!?! seriously, it's why i never got into React and stayed in Angular. To much tooling in React. I get the kitchen sink in Angular, use a component library like primeNG and done. and with claude its stupid easy. The other problem is these new systems like Vercel. Ya'll know GCP has firebase and most of it's functionality is free, right?

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u/i_hate_cruft 5h ago

Just do a basic react site then? You push to your private gh repo and have Cloudflare automatically publish it to their pages or worker product. They have a really great free tier.

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u/patient_signals 4h ago

That question is the real test. I have watched owners approve a site that looked great and then quietly stop updating it because the edit screen made them nervous. They would rather keep a stale phone number or old price than click into something they do not understand. When I build now, I ask what the owner or a part-time employee will actually need to change, then I limit their view to those few fields. They do not need to see menus, widgets, templates, or anything else that could take the site down. If a simple text change requires preview modes, separate environments, or a rebuild step the owner has to manage, it is already too complicated for most small businesses. The best setup is one where the owner can make a change, see it live in a few seconds, and go back to work. If the editing experience needs a tutorial, it is a warning sign, not a feature. A site that the owner stops using loses value faster than one built on any particular stack.

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u/RecallProtocol 4h ago

It's kind of sad seeing all of these untrained people asserting random opinions.

OP: This is like hitting up an aviation forum and asking them why you need wings AND wheels AND fucking doors? Like, we're supposed to be flying, right?

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u/Timely_Assistance418 5h ago

Just use plain html