How to build a website without frameworks and tons of libraries

Re:How to build a website without frameworks and tons of lib... by nickstinemates on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @03:48PM (#36591722)

Instead of using an off the shelf framework, they made their own.

And that's cool. Making stuff is fun.

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Re:How to build a website without frameworks and tons of lib... by spondylosaurus on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @04:00PM (#36591826)

For sure! I'm all in favor of bespoke new tools. If anything I'm just confused about the way they describe this in contrast to SSGs (and why a SSG wasn't a good option for them), and then go on to create a tool that literally generates a static site. :P

Maybe I'm being obtuse, but the reasons they gave for not using an established SSG primed me to expect a radically new solution. Versus "we didn't like any existing SSGs so we built our own," which was my takeaway from the whole thing.

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Re:How to build a website without frameworks and tons of lib... by Terretta on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @05:33PM (#36592760)

I'm with you. Jinja and watchdog.py taking somefile.src.html -> somefile.html feels a bit static-site-gen-ish.

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Re:How to build a website without frameworks and tons of lib... by fullstackchris on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @05:39PM (#36592841)

nooooooo!!! its totally without a framework though!!!! /s

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Re:How to build a website without frameworks and tons of lib... by dang on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @08:26PM (#36594208)

Can you please stop posting unsubstantive comments? We're trying for something different here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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