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Why our own website is a static React site

We rebuilt codeasthetics.com as pre-rendered HTML with no server process. Here is why, and what it costs us.

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Our previous website ran a Node server, a database and a background job to sync content. For a site that changes a few times a month, that is a lot of moving parts to keep patched.

What we changed

The site is now built with React and pre-rendered to plain HTML at build time. Content lives in version-controlled files and is edited through a small admin that runs only on our own machines. A deploy copies static files to the server — nothing else runs in production.

What we gain

  • Speed: every page is HTML on first byte, with no server rendering on the request path.
  • SEO: search engines see complete content, meta tags and structured data without executing JavaScript.
  • Security: there is no application server or database to attack on the public host.
  • Cost: the site needs a web server and nothing more.

What we give up

Content changes need a rebuild and deploy. For a marketing site that is a few seconds, and it gives us a reviewable history of every change.

One team. Total ownership

Tell us what you are building. We reply within one business day with next steps or a scoping call.

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1const { studio } = require('codeasthetics')
2const product = [
3 'mobile-app',
4 'saas-platform',
5 'ai-workflows',
6 'web-app'
7];
8
9product.forEach(p => {
10 studio.ship(p);
11});
12// production-ready, owned by you
Shipping weekly
studio.ship(p)

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