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Discussion on: Build a React & Firebase Blog Site: Part 1

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Gabriel Moncha • Edited

Yes. But then the purpose of reduced costs is not accomplished.
I have a small Romanian NGO, and the change we drive isn’t employed by online content. So there was no reason to invest in this strategy.
Keeping things simple and mostly free is one of my main objective.
I chose React-Static with Contentful. Not sure if it’s the right decision regarding SEO, but it was the most intuitive to make

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Lucas Trevisan

nowadays google and other search engines can index pages with dynamic content. I think it's not a big deal for you! But, if you really want strong SEO you'll need to switch to next, gatsby..

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Ashlee (she/her)

I definitely second Gatsby here! And there is also a plugin you can use that will pull data from Firebase and then make it available through GraphQL. I’ll try to look it up today and link here!

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Aaron

Great Article Ashlee! I have done a bit of work with firebase over the years and would have to say this article is one of the easiest to follow that I have seen!

Re SEO, I haven't used it but have heard a lot of good things about react-snap (github.com/stereobooster/react-snap) which allows you to make your create-react-app SEO friendly, which might be worth some people checking out!

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Lucas Trevisan

I'll definitely use in my future projects. Thanks!