VitePress

Back to Hugo

Ein Jahr lang habe ich versucht, VitePress für meinen Blog zu benutzen, was mehr oder weniger auch gut geklappt hat. Allerdings hat es mich nun doch zu Hugo zurück gezogen. Aber wieso sollte ich einer neuen Technologie vie VueJS den Rücken kehren und zu (in den Augen einiger) Bloatware zurück wechseln?

Switch from Hugo to VitePress

Hugo was good

Nearly six years ago, I finally said goodbye to WordPress and switched to a static site generator called Hugo. It was the perfect solution as it eliminated all the security risks associated with WordPress in one fell swoop, and also dramatically increased the performance of the blog due to the resulting static website.

Another significant advantage was that I could write my posts in Markdown, which automatically generated more attractive output. Over time, I made several optimizations to the configuration and, especially, to the theme. The latter might not have been the most elegant, but it visually suited me and was functionally optimized to the maximum for search engine optimization and automated semantic evaluations using RDFa. As a result, I consistently appeared at the top of search engine results. An automatically generated sitemap even allowed for perfect evaluation of subpages by search engines. One of the best, though sadly underused features, was the multilingual capability, which allowed me to publish some articles in English as well.