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Moving from Next to Astro
On rebuilding a personal site with less runtime and more emphasis on documents.
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- Dec 21, 2024
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- nextjs, astro, rewrite
The move is less about framework preference and more about matching the tool to the shape of the site.
The old stack was not wrong
Next.js can do much more than a personal site needs. The problem is that more capability often pulls the architecture toward heavier defaults.
The rewrite is about reduction
Astro makes it easier to treat pages as documents first and interactive islands second. That bias is useful here.
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Bojin Li
Bojin Li writes about software, systems, design, and the internet from a static-first, content-first perspective.
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A place for follow-up discussion
Discussion loads after the page. It should feel like part of the document, not a widget pasted under it. Moving from Next to Astro.
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