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Re: Show HN: Open-sourcing my wedding website on my first anniversary

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Post by austincheney »

dang wrote: post #66
hit8run wrote: post #61

Looking at the bloated and checked in node_modules folder makes me wanna cry. Yah it's probably all just dev dependencies but building a static website shouldn’t feel like rocket science. People were creating wedding websites in the 90s with just one html file and that’s it. Welcome to the age of total bloat.

Most of us share that view, but it's against the Show HN rules to post indignant rants about someone's work, so please don't do it here. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Taken from your link:

> When something isn't good, you needn't pretend that it is. But don't be gratuitously negative.

The comment you replied to is accurate and not gratuitously negative.

Re: Show HN: Open-sourcing my wedding website on my first anniversary

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Post by sizzle »

tathougies wrote: post #59
laurynas-s wrote: post #55

Nice! Had an idea to make a website for my wedding too (married one year ago), but in the end, decided to go with traditional paper invitations as would be difficult to explain to older people how to RSVP and paper invitations would be more cost-efficient (By comparing the time needed to build the website with my hourly rate). For big Indian weddings with hundreds of people, I do see that the website can benefit by n…

At a traditional indian wedding, you don't invite people. You tell your aunts and uncles and friends, and they tell their aunts and uncles and friends, and they tell theirs, etc, until you end up with 800 people at your wedding.

At $25-50+ a head for food and alcohol at reception alone, that is a huge number unless you come from wealth... However I think I read somewhere the average cost of South Asian wedding is $100-150k in California. Ouch.

Re: Show HN: Open-sourcing my wedding website on my first anniversary

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Post by vedantroy »

hit8run wrote: post #61

Looking at the bloated and checked in node_modules folder makes me wanna cry. Yah it's probably all just dev dependencies but building a static website shouldn’t feel like rocket science. People were creating wedding websites in the 90s with just one html file and that’s it. Welcome to the age of total bloat.

You sound like a "get off my lawn type of person"... let's take a look at the dependencies:

"animate.css" - as the name would imply, this is for css animations.

"font-awesome" - provides icons for vector graphics

"waypoints" - a easy way to trigger a function when you scroll to an element

This doesn't seem like "bloat". It's not like they used a full fledged framework like React. And, I think it would be pretty hard to replicate this site with "just one html file".

I'm sure its possible to make something similar without these 3 dependencies, but it would

1] be a lot harder

and

2] probably not look as good

Re: Show HN: Open-sourcing my wedding website on my first anniversary

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Post by xeromal »

austincheney wrote: post #71
dang wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most of us share that view, but it's against the Show HN rules to post indignant rants about someone's work, so please don't do it here. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Taken from your link: > When something isn't good, you needn't pretend that it is. But don't be gratuitously negative. The comment you replied to is accurate and not gratuitously negative.

The OP said they wanted to cry and crying is reserved for pretty sad things. Seems over-the-top negative to me
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