Moving to Astro and StaticCMS

Hey Y’all,

So I spent this past thursday feverishly working on moving my blog from Gridsome and Netlify CMS over to Astro and StaticCMS and let me tell you what: It has been extremely rewarding.

Gridsome and Netlify-CMS are Dead, Long Live Astro and StaticCMS

I am not one to try and constantly change out how things work. I try to find a system I like and stick with it (mostly out of laziness). At work lately we’ve been experimenting with some other systems outside of my normal routine, and Astro has been a big hit with both people at work, and many other people I know. I converted my (extremely simple) blog from gridsome over to astro in a couple of hours. It was really impressive.

Now, there has been a small amount of movement over the last 2 years at the gridsome project, and I hope they will eventually get things working in vue 3, but honestly, I’m tired of waiting. I also gave nuxt v3 a shot, and…. well… rss support was non existent, everything fel like it was in a state of “we will do that eventually” and I also feel like the end result SSG was a lot bigger than i wanted it to be (javascript wise).

Astro seemed like a good compromise by allowing me to copy over my styles and vue components and vue pages, and what I found was that it is so much better than a compromise. It’s enjoyable. It’s delightful. I was dubious at first about the .astro components needed to be used as pages and how they have serverside javascript in… frontmatter tags? But when I started using them, it just clicked. It was so easy.

I also had been using netlify-cms as my backend and apparently the 2 people who had been maintaining it at netlify are no longer working there which really kinda kills it. There have been a lot of small bugs here and there for a while, and knowing that no one is going to fix them is frustrating.

However, StaticCMS is a fork that has been made, and HOPEFULLY, it will be maintained for a while. I’m using it currently. It also has some new and different bugs, but I am sure those will get ironed out.