I have gotten to the part in my software engineering career where I create a “blog” and …. write about things I make, supposedly. Maybe I’ll be really, really cheesy and name the first post “Hello, World!”
Well, speaking of things that I have made: this website! I wanted to play with Astro. It’s one of many Javascript frameworks out there. Astro’s quirk is that it has a heavy emphasis on content. It is built from the ground up to support server-side rendering, hydration, all that nonsense. I thought it would be perfect for a website like mine.
“Just use Medium/WordPress/Super Epic Awesome 9000/Blogger/etc.”
Eh.
I really like to build stuff myself. I’m not writing articles to make money off of them. I just want to write about what I think is cool and send it down a tube. However, I supposed some basic analytics would be nice to have.
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I took a break from writing to go ahead and implement Google Analytics.
The Stack
Like I said earlier, I built the website itself with Astro. It currently isn’t paired with any other framework. It’s about as basic as an Astro site can get. This makes hosting really nice as I can just hook up my Git repository with Vercel and have it up with about zero configuration.