In the past I had my little hastebin clone with ExpressJS and MongoDB on my personal web server. I had since then moved to Vercel because my website is mostly static and I didn’t need a full web server on a VPS. I missed my hastebin clone so I wanted to recreate it, luckily Vercel supports serverless functions which allows us to do some server side stuff. Demo Here’s a demo URL to show you the final product: ravener....

I’ve decided to switch my website to the amazing hugo static site generator and in this post I’ll explain the reason and my experience with hugo in general. What did I use before? My website was built with plain HTML using bulma CSS Plain HTML might sound tough to maintain but I actually also wrote my own script to generate the output, this allowed to add extremely basic templating so I didn’t have to keep repeating code in every page....