Back to Basics in Web Apps
Back to Basics in Web Apps
In the beginning, there was only HTML. The first official HTML specification focused on semantic markup. There were minimal styling tags and attributes. It was up to the web browser how to render the markup in an HTML document. The whole specification was refreshingly simple. You could easily read i...
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I find it refreshing to write, not generate, HTML and CSS, and then sprinkle some JavaScript for interactivity.
I've found hugo to be rather amazing in generating static HTML and CSS (converting either HTML or Markdown templates into regular HTML).
I started out my personal website as:
- static HTML
- an SPA (yes, the archived version still works!)
- back to static (hand-written) HTML
- expanded the hand-written HTML
- and expanded some more
- until I had to generate the HTML via hugo, because the HTML headers were getting out of sync
PS: Have you ever seen TheNet (1995)?
PPS: All the HTML is pretty much all Semantic HTML, instead of Twitter's div>div>div>div>div
div>div>div>div>div
Ah yes, div soup.
By the way, have you tried different generators and compared them, or tried only Hugo, out of curiosity?
Only Hugo; I didn't want to try anything JS based and hugo is faaaaaast in its generation. Sub 1 second fast. It's so nice.
Cool! Very nice. Do you need it to be that fast or is it just nice because faster is better?
Author here. My blog is also generated with Hugo, and it's great. I just prefer not to generate HTML and CSS from JavaScript unless it's necessary.
Sorry, I haven’t seen that movie. Thanks for the recommendation though.
Too bad you haven't seen it - my site has a little easter egg from that movie :3