What is the best approach and tools to use if I created a website without using any 3rd party starter theme and page builders? Do i still need to use a framework or just plain Gutenberg?
You need a theme, even if you build it all yourself. It’s not difficult per se (depends on what you want to do with it) but if you’re building a one-off site it makes little sense to not use some kind of framework. It just saves time. There will be at least a little layout and css stuff you can’t do with blocks, or at least are much easier to do as part of your theme.
The place I work we have our own custom theme scaffold. It mostly ensures the theme structure from one site to the next is consistent and they all have the same build tools in place, otherwise it’s very basic. Separately we keep a library of custom Gutenberg blocks that we can pull into the theme or as a plug-ins, but I find myself relying on those less and less, as wp default blocks keep getting better. The build tools are typical; node, babel, webpack, eslint. We still use gulp (mostly because we’re old) to watch folders and run things.
I assume you mean you’re using one of the default themes (twentytwentyone, twentytwentytwo, etc). No, you absolutely do not need a third party page builder. The standard block editor and customizer should give you all the power you need. And if you’re using the twentytwentytwo or twentytwentythree theme, you’ll have full site block editing capabilities.
Use one of the the defaults with Gutenberg and the Twentig plugin. You can do pretty much any design you want especially if you use one of the newer FSE default themes.
You need a theme, even if you build it all yourself. It’s not difficult per se (depends on what you want to do with it) but if you’re building a one-off site it makes little sense to not use some kind of framework. It just saves time. There will be at least a little layout and css stuff you can’t do with blocks, or at least are much easier to do as part of your theme.
The place I work we have our own custom theme scaffold. It mostly ensures the theme structure from one site to the next is consistent and they all have the same build tools in place, otherwise it’s very basic. Separately we keep a library of custom Gutenberg blocks that we can pull into the theme or as a plug-ins, but I find myself relying on those less and less, as wp default blocks keep getting better. The build tools are typical; node, babel, webpack, eslint. We still use gulp (mostly because we’re old) to watch folders and run things.
I assume you mean you’re using one of the default themes (twentytwentyone, twentytwentytwo, etc). No, you absolutely do not need a third party page builder. The standard block editor and customizer should give you all the power you need. And if you’re using the twentytwentytwo or twentytwentythree theme, you’ll have full site block editing capabilities.
Use one of the the defaults with Gutenberg and the Twentig plugin. You can do pretty much any design you want especially if you use one of the newer FSE default themes.