Replacing NextJS With a Rust Static Site Generator 5 ▲ Patrick Desjardins Blog 45 days ago · Tech · hide · 7 comments I recently moved this website away from NextJS as the static generation engine. The site was working, but it had become heavier than what I needed. Most pages are static. Most content is markdown. The build was doing a lot of framework work for a problem that had become much smaller than the framewo… Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here. vrypan @vrypan@mastodon.social 45 days ago [-] Nice. I guess you don't want to change your engine, but you may get some ideas from bckt.bckt has been evolving (from Python, to Go, to Rust) for 17 years to support my own blog, but I recently tried to make it friendlier for everyone to use. https://blog.vrypan.net/2026/06/18/260618-bckt-073-is-out/ Patrick @mrdesjardins@mastodon.social 44 days ago [-] @bubbles 17 years is quite a feat, I had a Wordpress, to Gatsby, to NextJS to custom Rust :D I'll take a break for now :) vrypan @vrypan@mastodon.social 44 days ago [-] @bubbles 17 years is the SSG version. My first post goes back to 2003. I've tried all the arly ones, from drupal, to wordpress, to a thing called ezPublish, and so on.I now realize many people here may not have been born at the time... Patrick @mrdesjardins@mastodon.social 44 days ago [-] @bubbles I created a Mastodon account yesterday to answer you from the Bubbles.town website and I am now experimenting to include this type of thread into the blog for people to comment :) Just wanted to thank you! Your reply inspired me :) vrypan @vrypan@mastodon.social 44 days ago [-] @bubbles I've experimented with similar concepts in the past, but I also wanted to pull the comments in the static content. For example, I tried having a comments.md file that was populated with comments from pingbacks and then use it to render the comments as part of the post). It's not easy, because the static pages update infrequently, so ideally I needed a hybrid system where static comments were hydrated by dynamically pulled ones. vrypan @vrypan@mastodon.social 44 days ago [-] @bubbles It was way over my head at the time and not actually worth the effort, but if you build something like this, let me know! Patrick @mrdesjardins@mastodon.social 43 days ago [-] @bubbles I wrote something that I hope might be useful https://patrickdesjardins.com/blog/mastodon-thread-static-website Note that it does not allow reply on the website directly but it moves to Mastodon. Replies are threaded visually on the website using JavaScript but the rest of the website (and blogs) are all static.
