Look ma, no React: I recoded my portfolio site with vanilla everything
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Re: Look ma, no React: I recoded my portfolio site with vanilla everything
#2Yes you don’t need React for a static site. Is this news at this point?
Also I find the colour scheme hard to read but maybe it’s just me.
Re: Look ma, no React: I recoded my portfolio site with vanilla everything
#3Can I write a React app and recompile it as a vanilla? For example to take all involved parts of the library and not take the rest.
Re: Look ma, no React: I recoded my portfolio site with vanilla everything
#4The reason react was developed is mostly null at this point. Modern javascript is so fast and plesant it's hard to imagine many real reasons you can't stay entirely within vanilla.
Re: Look ma, no React: I recoded my portfolio site with vanilla everything
#5Yes you don’t need React for a static site. Is this news at this point? Also I find the colour scheme hard to read but maybe it’s just me.
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#6* [...] brought to you by vanilla everything. No Javascript frameworks, CSS libraries or flashy animations. [...] *
Proceeds with a distracting animated image of the old portfolio, thought that was funny.
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#7Yes you don’t need React for a static site. Is this news at this point? Also I find the colour scheme hard to read but maybe it’s just me.
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React isn’t complicated. It’s not even considered a framework, it’s better described as a library!
It’s a great way to templatize your code. Is it the only way? No. Do you even need to templatize your code? No.
Re: Look ma, no React: I recoded my portfolio site with vanilla everything
#8React is a great tool for building complex, large applications. Your blog is not large or complex.
Re: Look ma, no React: I recoded my portfolio site with vanilla everything
#9I think this is a pretty awesome statement. I'm always unreasonably pleased when I see a web page that embraces appropriate simplicity.
> Coding a basic vanilla multi-page application (MPA) saves time in development (goodbye babel/postcss/SSR config) and builds are fast (this site builds in less than 1.2 seconds).
I'd hope that builds would be on the order of a small pile of milliseconds! (or zero: a site like that could just be handcoded, really).
> I'm only using these 2 lines of Javascript to add the current year in the footer copyright tag
This could also be eliminated. At least in the US, there is no legal reason to add a copyright notice at all, and you certainly don't have to add a year. Those requirements were removed years ago.
But, if all you want is the year, why not do that server-side? Or bake it into the html and set up a bit of automation to replace the year with a new one every Jan 1.
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