Gridsome, the static site generator for Vue.js based on Webpack and Babel, was born roughly eight years ago and (let's face it) died four years later at the dawn of the Vue 3 and Vite era. Many people (myself included) struggled to accept that, but time has shown there were only two real choices: stay and suffer the ecosystem rot, or migrate to some alternative project.

I eventually chose the former and, up until recently, lived with it quite well, taking into account the modest requirements of my personal Gridsome-based website. I used Bun to keep the project alive and tried to find some bearable HTML+CSS+JS alternative in parallel.

Long story short, I failed (Astro is too hyperactive, Jekyll is too Ruby, Hugo is too Go, and so on) and dealing with Bun had become quite depressing lately, so one weekend day I decided to check how hard it would be to update Gridsome for Node LTS and modernized dependencies, preserving the same simplicity philosophy at the same time.

So that's how I came to this fork, and so far it works well for me, given that the updated alpha version supports two websites already: this docs project and my actual personal website.

My goals with Gridmix (Gridsome + Remix = Gridmix) are to at least avoid migrations for the latter in the foreseeable future and to maintain a healthy small ecosystem to avoid the ubiquitous security problems npm brought in recent years (or even days).

If you have any feedback/suggestions, please provide it through the core repository issues, my personal socials, or via ping@fyodor.io.

To be continued...

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