Wrote an unlisted post about developing a website in Astro. Will have someone else review it before I publish it, and will refine it a bit to make sure it's beginner-friendly

Nothing wrong with your tutorial, but astro seems bad. node + npm + 153MB worth of node_modules when most people want to just build a static website? :|

It's a lot, I agree, but I don't think it matters. You install it once, possibly for one site only and I doubt you'd feel the 150mb of disk space taken. It's the only one ssg I liked of jekyll, hugo, eleventy, and of course astro. Each one of them had some drawback and I decided that Astro has less wrong with it, considering the crazy amount of power it gives you

Also remember that only us, nerds, care whether it's 50mb or 150mb for a static site generator. People barely use the storage they have

I encourage you to try it to see if the DX can offset the memory footprint for you. It does for me

It's great that it works for you. The main deal breaker for me is not the size. It's npm/javascript/node_modules which from past experiences led me to pain or dependency hell. Also: $ npm ls --all --parseable | tail -n +2 | wc -l 187 Astro has 187 dependencies. That's a lot o_o I'm happy with Hugo, but if it didn't exist I'd probably write my own like @vhimu. I'm curious, what are your experiences with other ssgs?

>which from past experiences led me to pain or dependency hell. Really? NEVER had a problem with npm and I spent years in this ecosystem. However, with Python, every single time something was breaking for me, and i used it only a handful of times. >Astro has 187 dependencies. That's a lot o_o Typical NPM bullshit. It is what it is

> I'm curious, what are your experiences with other ssgs? 11ty literally broke one day and I still don't know why. Tried to fix it but gave up after a while. Hugo I found difficult to customize and its docs were pretty shit. Even now that I'm looking at them I feel lost. So much to click through. May be a skill issue since you customized your hugo site a lot. And Jekyll is just a piece of outdated garbage.

Terrible setup, as you mentioned, dependency hell, high chance that something breaks, abysmal customization, and even its own docs warn you that if you use latest ruby it might break. It's outdated and clunky to use

I also relate to python breaking :D I agree hugo docs can be better.

Mostly minor stuff. Added more gripes to the English article, added a Danganronpa tierlist to stuff and made the Mikan Tsumiki switcher pretty.

My favorite feature on this website was improved, yay! :D

Love you

not worth writing a post or any announcement about it but since neocities shows I updated the page - I recently made a feature that when you leave a comment without an username, you get a random animal name with a suffix generated. For example: snakeroo, or elephanter and such. It's fun! Feel free to test what you get at https://mentaldump.neocities.org/testpage/

Masafumi Takada is a genius, I love the Danganronpa soundtrack(s).