As a backend developer by trade, I’m much more at home wrangling data, building APIs, and designing systems than I am worrying about layout or color palettes. But when I decided to build a personal website, I had to wade into the world of frontend development—a world filled with frameworks, component libraries, and way too many opinions.
Like most developers, my first instinct was to research the tools: React? Svelte? Astro?
I’ve been wanting to put together a personal website for a while — something simple to share a bit about me, maybe share some random things that I thought were significant or cool at the time. At first, I considered using a traditional web framework, but I quickly realized I didn’t have any server-side logic or sensitive data to hide. Just text and some links. So why overcomplicate it?
That’s when I decided to go static.