Researching on blog tool to integrate
Hi, I am thinking to integrate blog into my platform lonely.dev. It will be mostly used to document the FAQ and announce some new features.
There seems a lot to choose. Medium of course, Ghost, ButterCMS, Contentful, etc.
I want to hear what blog tool you use and how's the experience. Thanks!
ButterCMS is a headless CMS with a preconfigured blog engine, so you don't have to spend time building one (or if you want to customize one you can do that too)
For some reason I keep coming back to Jekyll. Now I'm working on a redesign of the skyhop.org website, and I just figure that Jekyll gives me the most bang for the buck. Some reasons:
Ghost
Wordpress
Medium
Tumblr
I'm using eleventy (11ty https://www.11ty.dev/) and so far it's been the best fit for me.
It works, it's not bloated simple and super quick.
Obviously I've tried other before, but somehow there's always a catch, which I haven't seen on 11ty.
It powers by blog at: https://daily-dev-tips.com/
How much do you know javascript and react? If very well, use gatsby. If not very well, don't use it. :)
Because I know react well, I used gatsby and it's amazing. It gives your tremendous amount of freedom and flexibility.
In fact so much, that I was able to build part of my core functionality on it, not only the blog.
But I am already using CRA. I think I cannot have Gatsby coexist with CRA, right? Or I can have a sub-domain like blog.lonely.dev and use Gatsby from there.
Well, both CRA and gatsby just spit out static files in the end, so it mostly depends on your backend configuration.
Will it be able to send static files from two separate directories, depending on url?
Hey Damon! I'm building imprint.to, which has the social blogging component of Medium but with a strong focus on content ownership.
You can host on a custom domain for free, have a built-in audience out of the box, and there's no paywall/ads. Here's some sample blogs: postai.imprint.to / blog.rolandshen.com
We're in beta and constantly adding new features — would love if you tried it out!
Hi Roland, I just glanced over imprint.to. I like the design, keep it minimal. One thing would do is to generate some random picture for whatever the post that doesn't have images. Maybe it can make your front page more attractive. People like seeing pictures😜
Thanks for the feedback! Totally agree that there are too many blank cover photos right now, I'll get on that.
I've been using Ghost for rosie.land and am really enjoying it. It's just so nice and easy to use and has enough features/integrations to inspire me to keep going with more! 😍
Yah, actually I knew Ghost from rosie.land😜
Building something exactly for this type of use. Medium but customer focussed.