React hosted in an S3 bucket, API Gateway with one Lambda function per model, single DynamoDB table with overloaded indexes. This will cost you pennies to spin up and get traction with.
AFAIK most crawlers (including facebook etc) don't load javascript, so I'm always wondering how to allow dynamic pages (say a product's page) to be crawled and have a og meta tags.
If this had a great solution, boy things today would be much easier!
edited to add: The reason I discount SEO like this is because SEO is essentially chasing a search result against competitors who likely have more budget, more resources, and more time to play that game. Spend your time on making your product better, aggressively market directly to people instead of relying on the passive results of SEO, and by the time your project takes off, you will hopefully be in a spot where you won't care very much about why using react-helmet doesn't help with Facebook shares.
As I asked in my question, I also mentioned the need for og meta tags for social sharing, which is something that is often important for clients I talk to.
The appeal of a static SPA hosted on s3 is great, but I have trouble getting good responses about such fundamentals from people who advocate this architecture.
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