Why Next.js for a Personal Site

For a combined portfolio/blog/link-in-bio site, I wanted something that:

• Deploys in minutes to a custom domain
• Handles a blog without needing a separate CMS
• Doesn't require me to hand-write HTML for every new page

Next.js (App Router) + Tailwind CSS hits all three. Blog posts are just Markdown files in content/blog/, parsed at build time — no database, no CMS login, just a new .md file and a commit.

The whole thing deploys cleanly to Vercel with the custom domain attached directly in project settings.