Rewriting my website in plain HTML and CSS

Post by alwillis » Wed, Jan 15, 2025, 6:35 AM UTC

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 wrote: post #27

skyfaller wrote: post #22

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One modern approach would be Caddy Server's templates, using Golang templating: https://caddyserver.com/docs/modules/http.handlers.templates The "include" function should do the job: {{include "path/to/file.html"}}

httpd, nginx, a number of other servers support SSI https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_ssi_module.html Caddy chose not to, I guess? https://caddy.community/t/caddy-update-on-ssi-server-side-in...

Post by realusername » Wed, Jan 15, 2025, 6:49 AM UTC

spoonfeeder006 wrote: post #56

culi wrote: post #24

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> Yes, you must copy and paste content Many people who maintain their own sites in vanilla web technologies tend to create reusable functions to handle this for them. It can generate headers and the like dynamically so you don't have to change it on every single page. Though that does kill the "no javascript required" aspect a lot of people like Of course you could simply add a build step to your pure HTML site inste…

Isn't using React with a static site generator framework basically the same thing but better?

Post by lelanthran » Wed, Jan 15, 2025, 7:10 AM UTC

culi wrote: post #24

uncheckederror wrote: post #19

I've been maintaining my personal website as plain HTML for five years now. I must say, I quite like this method. There's no substitute for practice when it comes to maintaining your skills at editing HTML and CSS. Yes, you must copy and paste content and not having layout page is annoying at times. But the overhead of just doing it yourself is surprisingly small in terms of the time commitment. Typically, I'll draft…

> Yes, you must copy and paste content Many people who maintain their own sites in vanilla web technologies tend to create reusable functions to handle this for them. It can generate headers and the like dynamically so you don't have to change it on every single page. Though that does kill the "no javascript required" aspect a lot of people like Of course you could simply add a build step to your pure HTML site inste…

Post by erremerre » Wed, Jan 15, 2025, 7:26 AM UTC

Post by bob1029 » Wed, Jan 15, 2025, 7:31 AM UTC

  LayoutHtml(Session? Session, string title, string innerHtml, ...) => $@"
  
  (common elements)
  {innerHtml}
  (common elements)
  ";