To be honest, I’ve never been an active blogger. However, I really enjoy installing, changing and redoing my website from time to time. I have never been a web developer, so for me it’s a challenge to take a peek into how these things are done and how the web development evolves.
I moved the hosting from my Dreamhost account to a new service called
surge.sh, which is fantastic. It’s a service to publish static
webpages and its super easy to configure and deploy. You just need to
install the surge CLI from npm:
$ npm i -g surge
And then hit surge in the directory you want to publish. Configuring a custom
domain is also really easy. I’m really into the philosophy of static webpages so
Surge was definitely a way to go. My blog is much much faster now and I won’t get
more spam from people trying to get into my old blog admin.
I also moved from Dropplets to Gatsby, which is a static site generator built with React.js. It’s still in beta but its working really well and they have what they call starters, some pre-defined examples of sites built with Gatsby. You can type this to tell Gatsby to create a new product based on their blog starter:
$ gatsby new blog https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby-starter-blog
After this, running gatsby build generates the static site into the public/
directory, which you can then upload it to surge.sh. As a React Native developer
since the day 0, I’ve been working for a few years with the React component model,
so I’m looking forward to invest some time to start adding things into the site.
Thanks for reading, take care! 🤗