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Discussion on: Converting static HTML/CSS site to React App

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Jan Claasen • Edited

Great post for learning but I wouldn't recommend doing this from a practical perspective. You'll need a good reason why you would want to have your static site converted. I am really struggling to think of enough reasons to do this. And in most cases a simple templating language alongside of something like jekyll/hugo/11ty would be a way better solution.

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Junk

Great question. Unless there's a reason to need React, all this will do is make the site perform worse without adding any value.

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Menard Maranan

Thanks for the response! I also am thinking of the same thing, just there are some who have requested me in the past to do this, maybe they have a better reason, so yeah, I answered the demand 😅

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Jan Claasen

As my friends at Jurassic park said: "they were more preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."