When building a website, I was thinking about a question.
Using the Hexo tool compared to manually writing a simple website template, what's the difference?
Hand-coding, writing an article list pagination, article detail page, tag page, is also quite fast.
Can also achieve a similar Hexo effect,
So where is Hexo's value?
After careful analysis, what did Hexo do that I didn't?
After serious exploration, I still found that Hexo did quite a lot.
1. Rich website themes and styles. In an era where appearance is justice, some high-quality aesthetics are worth cherishing
2. Tags
3. Categories
4. HTML and markdown rendering
5. Plugins, dark mode, search, etc.
6. Multilingual support
7. Standardized and automated ecosystem, documentation (front-matter article metadata definition, plugin interfaces, etc.)
After figuring out these issues, I still chose the Hexo open-source tool instead of hand-coding. Website building tools like Hexo/Hugo still have certain value.
If you write code by hand, the final destination would also be a website building tool similar to Hexo/Hugo.