Aside from the fact that Hugo is Blazingly Fast™, I had a few problems with Docusaurus/the whole JS ecosystem that made it hard for me to keep updating my website.

I had no need for React in this website

There were only a few components that needed JavaScript, and now that I re-built the website with Hugo, there was only one that actually needed to be dynamic (i.e. post comments section, which was a single script tag in Hugo compared to an entire source file in React).

I was basically compiling my Markdown files to JSX, then compiling it to HTML instead of going directly to HTML. This made me unsatisfied with my build times considering I was not using much Docusaurus’ features.

I liked writing code too much that I never wrote actual content

Around the end of August, I discovered ReScript. This was a breath of fresh air, coming from TypeScript fatigue. Naturally, I was tempted to convert all my TypeScript projects to ReScript (even my work ones, thank my co-worker for stopping me).

My website wasn’t saved from this, though. It was fun for a while, playing around with its type system. Then I realized I spent more time inside the src directory instead of blog. I was basically just playing around with the code, not even changing the appearance or structure of the pages.

While I still use ReScript for my actual projects, my website doesn’t need it.

Simply less JavaScript

My content is purely markdown, my structure is purely HTML, my styling is stolen¹. No code necessary². The only JS that I request now is from Cloudflare (email protection and analytics) and utteranc.es (post comments using GitHub account). In conclusion, I’m just de-bloating my website, and I’m trying to move away from writing more code. The world surely is a better place with me exercising restraint.