Slightly off-topic: His single "index.php" with jQuery is helping him to earn thousands per month.
https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1675829733668319233/phot...
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
#22Why? Most companies require skills in frameworks and libraries. The fact you can glue them together shows a different skill, that you'll most likely use in job daily.
This feels so forced. Make a joke CV, strip it of any mentions of these "bad" things, try applying. Good luck.
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#23I took a similar approach building mailpace.com's marketing/landing site: https://blog.mailpace.com/blog/using-html-modules/ basically you just write in HTML, CSS and a wee bit of JS wherever you want it, and have a couple of tiny npm scripts that glue it together. Put it on netlify, cloudflare, github, or wherever and it scales right up. In comparison our blog is in Gatsby, and boy does that framework never seem to…
I genuinely believe Gatsby is the epitome of everything wrong with front-end development. It’s such a bad framework. So complex and confusing and fragile just to generate static pages.
Re: How to build a website without frameworks and tons of libraries
#24Why? Most companies require skills in frameworks and libraries. The fact you can glue them together shows a different skill, that you'll most likely use in job daily. This feels so forced. Make a joke CV, strip it of any mentions of these "bad" things, try applying. Good luck.
To be fair, they're still using frameworks and libraries. A static site generator is probably not going to be an entry on a CV anyway.
Re: How to build a website without frameworks and tons of libraries
#25Why? Most companies require skills in frameworks and libraries. The fact you can glue them together shows a different skill, that you'll most likely use in job daily. This feels so forced. Make a joke CV, strip it of any mentions of these "bad" things, try applying. Good luck.
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#26github pages
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#27Thank you, no
Re: How to build a website without frameworks and tons of libraries
#28Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but this doesn't sound all that different from your average static site generator—Python-based Jinja templating for HTML files versus Ruby-based Liquid templating for HTML/Markdown files (i.e., Jekyll).
Instead of using an off the shelf framework, they made their own. And that's cool. Making stuff is fun.
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.
Re: How to build a website without frameworks and tons of libraries
#29I think everyone writing content for the web should learn HTML and maybe some CSS - although the design part should be done by someone good with CSS, so that you only need to use semantic HTML, or you will end up with div's all over.
Re: How to build a website without frameworks and tons of libraries
#30Slightly off-topic: His single "index.php" with jQuery is helping him to earn thousands per month. https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1675829733668319233/phot...
I’m all for jquery to handle sending and event and updating some dom elements, that’s simple and pretty easy to debug actually.
Not using any modern CSS layout though, ehhh I would never want to return to the age of .clearfix, that feels like the opposite of simple.