Migrated To Nuxt Content

I just migrated my personal site from Statamic into Nuxt. I am using the nuxt-content module configured to be document driven.

I was initially drawn to the Notion-like block-based rich text editor of Nuxt Studio, so I played with it using its content-wind template. I also liked that you could host your static content using Github pages and use your own custom domain. This was perfect for me who is just starting out with blogging; no-cost and efficient workflow!

Unfortunately, after a couple of days of tinkering with Nuxt studio I encountered a few unrefined functionalities:

• Switching between markdown and rich editor is a bit slow 😐
• Live preview caching was consistently inconsistent 😢
• Custom domain with Github pages was buggy 😤

Because of those issues, I decided to drop Nuxt studio. I'd like to revisit it once functionalities are more refined.

The good thing is in the process I got my feet wet with nuxt-content specifically its document driven mode. And I love it! 😍 So my take away was leverage the power and beauty of this framework and just deploy everything on my own using Vercel, which is still no-cost and efficient. By the way, it was because of Nuxt studio's chat support that I discovered Vercel! With Vercel I also have extra analytics and speed insights available 🎉🤩.

Don't get me wrong, Statamic is also a great CMS! It is built on top of Laravel so it has a lot of features included out of the box! But that is the thing, for my use case I wanted a simple, basic, and for blogging only codebase. So a static site generator like nuxt-content was perfect for me. Besides with Nuxt I can build on top of it if/when needed, I can even have Laravel as my backend.

In conclusion, I love my new setup for my needs right now. I love both Laravel and Nuxt and I will utilize both where they fit the use case.