Let's try astro for that new website

After checking quite some static website generators, like Hugo, Pelican, 11ty, I finally picked Astro, because I found it to be quite interesting. For me, it was the right compromise between “code” and “automatism”, which I wanted to try out.

I didn’t want to use something like wordpress installation another time, because I experienced it as:

1. not adding/changing content often enough to really justify using a CRM
2. generating static contant meant less effort for maintenance, like
   • no more updating PHP
   • no more updating MariaDB
3. WYSIWYG is nice, because of clicky-dee-click, but I don’t really care for having some UI - usually, I’m faster via editor/CLI anyways

So far, I can say, I quite like it:

• fits my KISS-desire regarding trivial setup, fits in my NodeJS biotope
• dev-script with live-updates provides a nice WYSIWYG-experience
• build-script allows easy integration for compressing of resulting static output
• pagefind-integration opens up a search functionality, the generated website content