The #lowbuild principle:

Minimal dependencies. Maximum leverage.

One build tool that solves a real problem, with escape hatches that scale to your needs.

#nobuild is ideological. #lowbuild is pragmatic.

🌢️ #nobuild is a solo developer philosophy masquerading as universal advice.

The append-only CSS problem that drove teams to Tailwind? Nobuild doesn't solve it. It ignores it.

Let me make the case for #lowbuild instead...

#nobuild can work for solo devs or small disciplined teams. You know your codebase. You can keep CSS lean through sheer will.

But teams of 5, 10, 20 with varying frontend experience? You need guardrails. You need something that makes the wrong thing hard.

The reason your team's CSS file is tens of thousands of lines isn't because you used a build tool. It's because nobody knows what's safe to delete. That's a *coordination* problem. #nobuild doesn't fix coordination; it just gives you the same mess with more View Source pride.

@bw Too bad I don’t do PHP anymore. But I have been on the #nobuild, #nobundle journey as well. My findings: https://mastrojs.github.io/guide/bundling-assets-caching/#bundling

Does that jibe with what you’ve observed? Did you find any benchmarks with HTTP/3 ?

Bundling, pregenerating assets and caching | Mastro

πŸš€ Just simplified the #frontend workflow of my #django project template, with the #nobuild approach and the #vendoring of CSS/JS dependencies.

More details in an upcoming blog post soon. https://codeberg.org/David-Guillot/django-project-template

#webdev

django-project-template

A proposal for starting working with Django at a professional level. :warning: To start your own project, don't fork, use the "Use this template" button!

Codeberg.org
erm haha #nobuild haha KILL YOURSELF

"It ain'nt much but it's honest work"

#borkweb #babashkas first fullstack web framework reached 100 Stars at github! Amazing! Thank you all for your appreciation.

Let's make it even better and more accessible for all the people to come. #borkweb is easy to use and low friction and supports an whole clojuresqe workflow without switching context. Its all just clojure on the backend and the frontend. And the best part is that it is intended to have no buildsteps included. #nobuild

Grab #babashka and build your webapp.

https://github.com/m3tti/borkweb

My esteemed followers, you have posted a total of 375,809 statuses to the #fediverse. 22% of you have posted in the last 24h. You are a chatty bunch! ;-)

Check out my new #sideproject: *fedi-followers*. A privacy-friendly fediverse #followers explorer as #localonly #staticwebapp, decentrally hosted on the #ipfs. See who's actually following (and unfollowing) you over time and much more.

https://fedi--followers-data0-one.ipns.dweb.link/

#decentralization #mastodev #esmodules #importmaps #nobuild #indexeddb #preact

a privacy-friendly fediverse followers explorer as local-only static web app.

I've built a thing.

Sometimes my follower count seemingly fluctuates at random. To understand why, I dug into the #MastodonAPI and created "fedi-followers":

A privacy-friendly #fediverse #followers explorer as local-only static web app, decentrally hosted on the #ipfs. See who's actually following (and unfollowing) you over time and much more.

https://fedi--followers-data0-one.ipns.dweb.link/

#mastodev #javascript #webapp #staticwebapp #nobuild #esmodules #importmaps #indexeddb #preact #htm

a privacy-friendly fediverse followers explorer as local-only static web app.