It has been two years since the restaurant opened its doors. Two years in which a lot has happened. After countless changes to our hygiene concept and lockdowns we can proudly say that the restaurant has been a success story. Taiwanese culture is accepted very will and a Google score of 4.7 lets us believe that quality and price are well accepted. Also the online representation of the business was a success. We managed to create a website and other important entries for Google and Tripadvisor with a very low effort. Our website has 200 visitors on an average day and is therefore, for a business of that size, very well established. Providing the website over Netlify went without problems. The only difficulty was to multiple host domains from a different provider on netlify. This brought some problems with the certificates in the begining which is of course inacceptable for a restaurant client facing website. Next time I would do it again and host over Netlify with Gatsby but only organize every aspect of the website over Netlify itself. If stakeholder whish to acctivly participate in the content I would think about switching back to wordpress but Gatsby allows for full flexibility while being less complex.
While there are no mayor differences between https://taiwantapas.de and this blog here I have used another approach to styling this time. I have given Tailwind CSS a try to see what the fuzz is about at recent times. I have to say I first disagreed with the notion of having this abstraction in my code. But, as we often have to, changed my mind and here is why:
Overall I still have get more proficient with Tailwind in a bigger project but the above mentioned benefits and the great dark mode implementation already changed my mind on Tailwind CSS which I first though to be unnecessary abstraction on CSS with terrible syntax. Now it might just be the next tool in my belt to write CSS quicker, more reuseable and a bit more performant than before.