The specific implementation is irrelevant, you could use any other piece of software to achieve it.
Netlify is hot garbage and you should avoid them like the plague.
I built a startup on a second account, invited a team, and then it started charging me for my personal websites on my first account.
I didn't know about this and they cumulatively billed me hundreds of dollars. When my card info changed, they took my websites hard down. I had no idea either of these things was going to happen.
When I told them their support was 100% unhelpful. No refund, not even a restoration of my websites that they completely deleted.
Do not use Netlify.
They describe the steps and provide the clue that it's a 45 line script including blank lines and comments. I think they expect you would be able to quickly replicate their work in a language of your choice and calling out to libraries of your choice.
> no description of what the heck "Watchdog.py" is, no description of what Jinja
The authors expect that their readers know how to google (or ask chatgpt) for simple coding terminology.
> no description of what Jinja - I for one don't know what either of those are, sorry if i'm an "ignorant normie"
The first mention of Jinja had both a description of what it does for them, and a link that you could have clicked to get more information about it. Guess it's easier to post snarky comments on HN.
Why not go back and fix up formatting and grammar within your own post and then hit the reply button.
I do have to agree with you somewhat, but please take it easy. I do note that this Koding Kitty blog entry comes across to me (personally) as utter wankery. For starters, my 53 year old eyes require CTRL + until 150%.
"Too lazy to read?" <smol>fuck off</smol>.
... yep, triggered 8)
"We don't need to store our content in a database. We don't need to deal with plugins. We don't need a visual editor to write our content."
That's nice. I deployed Mediawiki with Visual Editor at work for our documentation needs and it has been wildly successful for us - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Intranet I would never get MS Word addicts to use mark anything or whatevs.
The VM is tiny. We have over two decades of docs in there and the MariaDB tables are 415MB, sorry that's the entire /var/lib/mysql directory, mediawiki DB is 224MB (just checked). There are a fair few additional files - pics etc. We have a full set of ISO 9000 and ISO 27000 docs in there so it is not a trivial store.
You're conflating libraries with frameworks. I see no frameworks listed in TFA so they're not wrong. Seems a weird argument to be getting so angry about
And I can guarantee that at some point, most of you have visited one of two web sites I created. (My company created far more than that.)
It wasn't hard to do what I did. I'm a programmer, damn it. And I hired programmers to do the same thing. None of them struggled with it.
Oh yeah?
and netlify is totally free for an infinite amount of sites! how crazy is that?
> We use a short Python script with exactly 45 lines of code. Including comments and blank lines. > > In summary, this is the simple toolchain for building our web: > > Developer updates index.src.html > Watchdog.py detects the file change and ... > ... renders Jinja template into index.html and ... > ... calls Tailwind CSS CLI to generate styles.min.css.
love posts like these that insult literally any other way of doing things except their way, claiming it's "simple" when in the end they don't even show the step by step code or link to any repository that shows how it's done. regardless of "without frameworks or tons of libraries", its esoteric and definitely not an average or common way of doing things (to the rest of us), and clearly DOES use codes (and/or?) a framework!!!
no description of what the heck "Watchdog.py" is, no description of what Jinja - I for one don't know what either of those are, sorry if i'm an "ignorant normie"
simply put, it's quite clear you ARE using frameworks, just in your mind, perhaps, you "aren't"
this whole framework vs no framework vs BS vs BS vs BS has gotten really out of hand, and 99% of devs cant see the forest from the trees
what in the world did i just read