Mastodawn

Sara Soueidan Jul 11, 2024

Not a day goes by when I work on my website that I don't wish for a simpler setup. No SSG. No npm. No tooling. Just simple HTML with partials imports, vanilla CSS, and whatever vanilla JS is necessary for enhancements.

I just want the HTML partials imports. Why don't we have them already?!

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Sara Soueidan Jul 11, 2024

Actually, the main reason I feel uninspired to work on it (I haven't done so since I migrated to 11ty three years ago) is *because* of the tooling I need to use.

I don't want dependencies. I don't want tools with breaking updates. I just want a simple website. 🥹

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Olivier Forget

@SaraSoueidan I agree. A build step would be OK (we usually have a deploy step anyways), it's the fact that a build step involves reams of projects that invariably change or break something on you. If the build tools could be as reliable as running rsync (for example), I'd be OK with it. But as things are, their instability goes completely against the web's stable nature that we enjoy so much.