I recently built AI Search with 0 frameworks and dependencies (please don't hate because of the word AI) For comparison, similar sites are a lot heavier (not criticizing anyone here) phind.com = 1.09MB you.com = 1.3MB aisearch.vip = 0.035MB I still find the ~1MB of other sites to be ok, but 35kB is the smallest I've ever made a full SPA and that's simply because every single letter in the code is specifically made fo…
How to build a website without frameworks and tons of libraries
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Re: How to build a website without frameworks and tons of libraries
#112> Mind you, Hetzner webhosting starts at 2 EUR! How crazy is that? 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 Ji…
Re: How to build a website without frameworks and tons of libraries
#113I recently built AI Search with 0 frameworks and dependencies (please don't hate because of the word AI) For comparison, similar sites are a lot heavier (not criticizing anyone here) phind.com = 1.09MB you.com = 1.3MB aisearch.vip = 0.035MB I still find the ~1MB of other sites to be ok, but 35kB is the smallest I've ever made a full SPA and that's simply because every single letter in the code is specifically made fo…
FYI I went on your site and it took 5 full seconds to load.
Re: How to build a website without frameworks and tons of libraries
#114> Mind you, Hetzner webhosting starts at 2 EUR! How crazy is that? 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 Ji…
Re: How to build a website without frameworks and tons of libraries
#115>We use html and css sooo hip!
>We use jinja wait.. what?
>and self-made file-watching static generator that uses python and css-generator
Are you kidding me? That's the real good case of NIH syndrome.
Re: How to build a website without frameworks and tons of libraries
#116> Mind you, Hetzner webhosting starts at 2 EUR! How crazy is that? 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 Ji…
99% of developers are out her building with php, .net or Java and its fine
Re: How to build a website without frameworks and tons of libraries
#117Alright, I’m gonna be that guy. Right now, sveltekit + skeleton has absolutely blown my mind at how fast you can make a usable prototype. It’s honestly insane. You don’t even need to know svelte, really. As long as you can understand the file based routing thing, the rest is just html unless you really need more. Especially with the tailwind stuff built right in and a mostly vanilla looking theme. I’ve tried probably…
If you ask me, it’s the best static site builder right now, and a lot simpler than what’s described in this article.
Re: How to build a website without frameworks and tons of libraries
#118> Mind you, Hetzner webhosting starts at 2 EUR! How crazy is that? 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 Ji…
Jinja is a templating framework. You can use it with ansible for example, to replace config values or secrets in a configuration file for different servers, etc
Re: How to build a website without frameworks and tons of libraries
#119Alright, I’m gonna be that guy. Right now, sveltekit + skeleton has absolutely blown my mind at how fast you can make a usable prototype. It’s honestly insane. You don’t even need to know svelte, really. As long as you can understand the file based routing thing, the rest is just html unless you really need more. Especially with the tailwind stuff built right in and a mostly vanilla looking theme. I’ve tried probably…
Re: How to build a website without frameworks and tons of libraries
#120"instead, here's our way with a DIFFERENT set of frameworks and libraries!"
...you're kidding me right?