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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Matthias Ott Jul 12, 2024

@SaraSoueidan Maybe the closest to that could be a @getkirby site. 🤔 @bastianallgeier and team built the site for Kirby itself with basically zero dependencies, for example. The only thing that happens is a little bundling with esbuild when the site gets deployed.

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Eddie

@matthiasott @SaraSoueidan @getkirby @bastianallgeier +1 to this. I have exactly the same mindset as the original post by @SaraSoueidan : the less dependencies, the better. I really feel Kirby is a great fit for that mindset. But for sure; html includes would open for even simpler solutions for things like straight up dev blogs.