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Discussion on: I built a large production static site for a publisher (100K articles) [without GatsbyJS], Ask Me Anything!

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Casey Brooks

What features would you like to add to the site, that you struggle to do well with it being static?

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Jason Brown • Edited

When we built it, SSR react was not a "thing" so we had to mount the React app above the HTML templates, this led to a lot of duplication. So we avoided adding React components unless it provided some form of meaningful interaction with the user: comments, real-time updates etc.

We didn't really struggle with features because it was static, we just had to find better ways to prevent duplication or placeholder elements that would be overridden.

Markup consistency is something I'd add.