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On topic 1 I was thinking to myself the other day, "I wonder if I can create a static webpage that isn't some sort of SPA or web app." It took me time to work
by markatkinson 8y ago
On topic 1 I was thinking to myself the other day, "I wonder if I can create a static webpage that isn't some sort of SPA or web app."
It took me time to work out where to start... Once you think it through you realise it is pretty easy and obvious. But (and this gives away my age a bit), I have not built a static webpage since school (over 10 years ago), and have become so accustomed to all the crazy shit that goes into web development today like Webpack, NPM, React, Angular etc etc that I had forgotten how to actually just serve a piece of HTML.
My dependence on all these frameworks and CLIs sent me on a quest to find out more about pure javascript, and I came across an incredible talk by a developer who created a pure javascript web app for music notation. I really wanted to link it here but cannot find it.
- 0xCMP 8y agoYea here is the talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7n2xnOiWI8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7n2xnOiWI8) I have found that static generators, specifically Hugo, have made just plain HTML fun again. They give you just enough power to not repeat yourself endlessly (e.g. maintaining each page and copy-pasta all changes between them) without turning into the system's we're all trying to step back from.
- markatkinson 8y agoYes, thank you! What a great talk.
- vanderZwan 8y ago> It took me time to work out where to start... Neocities? It's where I occasionally dump my static-can't-be-bothered sketches. http://neocities.org/ http://neocities.org/
- aldoushuxley001 8y agoI was expecting an ancient 90s era neocities site, but it's actually very beautifullly designed. Well done Neocities.
- user111233 8y agoThere is a lot of user submitted 90s style content though.