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🗓️ 2 June 2025
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Wes rebuilt his personal site from Gatsby to a modern stack using Waku, React Server Components, and Cloudflare Workers — all while keeping the same design. Scott and Wes break down the pain points with Next.js, MDX, image handling, caching, and the custom setup that now powers a blazing-fast blog.
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Syntax. Today we're going to be talking about Wes's new website. He moved it from Gatsby to React Server components. So there's a lot of lessons to be learned here, and I'm excited to get into it, learn a little bit about your experience, and just general get the vibes for what the type of rewrite like this actually costs. |
0:23.5 | My name is Scott Tilinski. I'm a developer from Denver with me as always is Wes Boss. What's up, |
0:27.5 | Wes? Hey, I'm super stoked to actually have this out the door. So one of those projects I've been |
0:33.8 | poking around at for quite a while. You know, those projects where it's like not super |
0:39.0 | pressing, but every now and then I dip into it. And finally, I was like, I got to actually finish |
0:44.2 | this thing. Let's get this thing out the door. So I learned a lot about moving it from Gatsby. |
0:50.5 | I'll talk about why I moved it and whatnot in just a sec, but learned quite a bit as |
0:55.0 | as well. We're going to talk about how to migrate over as well as hosting it. I put it on Cloudflare, |
1:00.3 | how much that costs, all that good stuff. Nice. Sick. I just got back from from Barcelona at the |
1:05.9 | Sveldt Summit West. Yeah. How was that? Man, cool conference. They had it in this like really kind of old, rustic kind of building. |
1:14.2 | You said it looked kind of like a prison, but it was really cool. |
1:17.7 | The whole thing was just like felt like very specific vibes to it. |
1:22.1 | And all the talks were great. |
1:23.6 | You know, there's something really special about a smaller conference where all of the |
1:28.6 | talks are about like one common thread. Like you really feel like you can get something out |
1:33.8 | of all of the talks. And there were like several speakers who was their first time speaking. |
1:39.1 | And they like, you would have never known. They were just like every single person was dialed. |
1:45.8 | Everybody was there for the same reasons. |
1:47.7 | It was great. |
1:48.4 | What was your talk on? |
1:49.8 | My talk was on Local First with Zero basically. |
1:53.6 | I'm talking about how Local First as a concept is like it's fairly rigid in terms of what local first is defined as but like not |
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