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Hi everyone, I'm trying to decide which front-end tool, that will likely use server-side rendering (SSR), in hopes it'll be faster. The end-user will upload a document and they see text output on their screen (like SaaS or microservice). I read that Gatsby can also do SSR. Also want to add a headless CMS that is easy to use.

Backend is in Go. Open to ideas. Thank you.

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Vishal Gupta
Senior Architect at Mindtree Ltd · | 3 upvotes · 26.6K views
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If your purpose is plain simply to upload a file which can handle by backend service than Gatsby is good enough assuming you have other content pages which will benefit from faster page loads for those Headless CMS driven pages. But if you have more logical/functional aspects like deciding content/personalization at server side of web application than choose NextJS.

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Leonard Daume
CTO - Doing the right things right at QYRAGY GmbH · | 2 upvotes · 5.1K views
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I have experience with Hugo and Next.js, but not with Gatsby. I would go with Next.js. However, I used Astro for my last project, so I would recommend Astro. Astro is much faster and you can use almost any frontend framework if you need to.

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Decisions about Assemble, Hugo, and Middleman
Manuel Feller
Frontend Engineer at BI X · | 4 upvotes · 161.2K views

As a Frontend Developer I wanted something simple to generate static websites with technology I am familiar with. GatsbyJS was in the stack I am familiar with, does not need any other languages / package managers and allows quick content deployment in pure HTML or Markdown (what you prefer for a project). It also does not require you to understand a theming engine if you need a custom design.

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Pros of Assemble
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      Lightning fast
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      Single Executable
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      Easy setup
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      Great development community
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      Open source
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      Write in golang
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      Not HTML only - JSON, RSS
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      Hacker mindset
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      LiveReload built in
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      Gitlab pages integration
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      Easy to customize themes
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      Very fast builds
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      Well documented
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      Fast builds
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      Easy to learn
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      Rails for static sites
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      Erb, haml, slim
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      Live reload
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      Easy setup
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      Emacs org-mode integration by middleman-org
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      Make front-end easy and rock solid again

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    Cons of Assemble
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        No Plugins/Extensions
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        Template syntax not friendly
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        Quick builds
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        What is Assemble?

        Most popular site generator for Grunt.js and Yeoman. Assemble is used to build hundreds of web projects, ranging in size from a single page to 14,000 pages (that we're aware of!).

        What is Hugo?

        Hugo is a static site generator written in Go. It is optimized for speed, easy use and configurability. Hugo takes a directory with content and templates and renders them into a full html website. Hugo makes use of markdown files with front matter for meta data.

        What is Middleman?

        Middleman is a command-line tool for creating static websites using all the shortcuts and tools of the modern web development environment.

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