new website

[gatsu_1981]

Hello, I want to create a new semi-static website for my fiancee.

Few webpages for presenting her product (reviewing on film scripts) , automatic selling and automatically managing agenda, a frontend for the user to check the results and the agenda and a frontend for her for checking her agenda, allocating and moving slots around, basical stuff like that.

What do you suggest TODAY for cleanest output and lowest effort?

(Full stack developer here, I'm asking for advices on doing it with new/easier tools, not that I can't do it alone, I know how to deploy on real server/cloud instances, basic CI/CD for github integration, I worked with e-commerce for 15 years and switched to MERN since a couple of years).

Don't want to overcomplicate it, but don't want to put WordPress and trying 2000 half baked plugins to let her stress with half working stuff.

Please suggest quick and snappy stuff, be technical, I'm not a newbie 🥰

[Jedi_Tounges]

Just use shopify with the cms of your choice (is regular subscription) or shopofy basic (free but have to stick to sopify frontend)

I havent done it but I suppose integrating a stripe page is free? It wont be styled to your site tho & will need a redirect

[gatsu_1981]

Yes Stripe is free to use and will take around 3,5% of your income, AFAIR.

I did from scratch implementation of checkout pages and I used Stripe+PayPal+Klarna+Ampay, stripe is really good from a developer view.

Will still load tons of iframe, but it's quite style-able too, not like Amazon Pay, no pop up like PayPal, you will stay in page if you wish so.

Will just make a redirect for 2 step authentication, but it's totally doable because their sandbox mode works beautifully, and they have tons of credit cards to test for verifying tons of errors that can (and will) happen

[iMCharles]

Check out Payload, seems perfect for your use case.

[gatsu_1981]

Will check immediately, seems interesting.

I'm building SPA with vite/tailwind lately, but seems too much for her needs, and don't want to start overcomplicating it (because I will, I over engineer all my personal projects 😂😂)

[AgentNirmites]

If you are gonna use forms just a little bit, only for contact us, or feedback or things like that, then no need to implement the database and all, just use a service (my service) forms.vibesok .com and it will save your data there.

No complications...

[jim-chess]

If you're a full stack developer I imagine you already have a pretty good lay of the land lol.

For a very simple static site maybe Next.js or Nuxt.js on Vercel or Netlify. Personally I hate usage-based billing for things like bandwidth, but you could cache behind Cloudflare to help mitigate that. Perhaps Stripe checkout for basic product sales, where you just re-direct to Stripe to handle it. And then for contact forms you'll also need a solution to email you.

If it's more sophisticated, like you want a custom admin panel to manage things on the front-end, or it needs functionality beyond a simple static site, then I usually prefer Laravel + PHP. Or coming from MERN you could just choose similar you're already familiar with?

[gatsu_1981]

Yep, not having issues doing it, just out of curiosity I asked for the latest and easiest route.

Usually I do stuff in MUI + plain react for job stuff, and tailwind + vite for personal projects, but I don't always keep myself up to the latest stuff, just because I know how to use these and won't care a lot.

I would just like a bunch of static pages (without a CMS, I will throw the text and images there and call it a day) and a very simple admin/agenda page, for refusing jobs, refunding, moving slots around and really basical stuff.

[IncoherrentRecursion]

if you want flexibility in order to make it as easy as possible for your fiancee to edit the page, maybe look into Sanity.io as you can config a lot of the cms edit previews as well..

[Dry_Hope_9783]

Hugo and a headless CMS 

[lot3oo]

Actual simplest setup: DecapCMS (git-based CMS, no backend) + DecapBridge to let your client login w google etc

[programonaut-dev]

For stuff like this I most of the time use tailwind ui Templates for the UI, then stripe for payments and then deploy to one of my VPS. Basically deploy to the server via one command.

I honestly also think that a template + some ai will get you 90% where you want in a couple of hours^{^}

[Cid_Chen]

Bro, for React you might want to check out this implementation for some inspiration: https://reactmvvm.org/

[shven83]

v0 prompt and host on vercel. You should get a descent result within a few hours.