{"data":{"site":{"siteMetadata":{"title":"Andrew Pattison .dev","author":"Andrew Pattison"}},"markdownRemark":{"id":"4308ac9a-881a-5211-ab3b-92a0fb5d71f7","excerpt":"I’m a Windows .NET developer. Over the last five years I’ve been making lots of \nMicrosoft ASP.NET MVC and WebAPI applications hosted in Microsoft Azure, but…","html":"<p>I’m a Windows .NET developer. Over the last five years I’ve been making lots of\nMicrosoft ASP.NET MVC and WebAPI applications hosted in Microsoft Azure, but\nits usually the backend where I do my work. So my normal goto would be to create\na new MVC project and pop it onto an Azure WebApp. That seems to be a bit\nunnecessary for a site that isn’t very dynamic.</p>\n<p>Instead, I’m going to create a static site. This will mean I’ll have to learn a\nstack - frontend - and technology I’m not very familiar with. And by making it\nstatic, it should mean the requirements to host it should be low and therefore\ncheaper.</p>\n<p>Asking the frontend specialists at work, they suggested I take a look at\n<a href=\"https://www.gatsbyjs.org/\">Gatsby</a>. Its based on <a href=\"https://reactjs.org/\">React.js</a>\nand uses <a href=\"https://webpack.js.org/\">Webpack</a> and <a href=\"https://graphql.org/\">GraphQL</a>,\nso lots of cool and modern stuff to learn 😀</p>\n<p>In the future, the site might turn into a Dockerized React.js site, just so I\ncan learn something else, but this is fine for now.</p>\n<p>However, before I can do that, I need to setup my hosting solution.</p>","frontmatter":{"title":"What should I make?","date":"March 10, 2019"}}},"pageContext":{"slug":"/what-should-i-make/","previous":{"fields":{"slug":"/hello-world/"},"frontmatter":{"title":"Hello World"}},"next":null}}