How to build a website without frameworks and tons of libraries
> Mind you, Hetzner webhosting starts at 2 EUR! How crazy is that?<p>Oh yeah?<p>and netlify is totally free for an infinite amount of sites! how crazy is that?<p>> We use a short Python script with exactly 45 lines of code. Including comments and blank lines.
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> In summary, this is the simple toolchain for building our web:
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> Developer updates index.src.html
> Watchdog.py detects the file change and ...
> ... renders Jinja template into index.html and ...
> ... calls Tailwind CSS CLI to generate styles.min.css.<p>love posts like these that insult literally any other way of doing things except their way, claiming it's "simple" when in the end they don't even show the step by step code or link to any repository that shows how it's done. regardless of "without frameworks or tons of libraries", its esoteric and definitely not an average or common way of doing things (to the rest of us), and clearly DOES use codes (and/or?) a framework!!!<p>no description of what the heck "Watchdog.py" is, no description of what Jinja - I for one don't know what either of those are, sorry if i'm an "ignorant normie"<p>simply put, it's quite clear you ARE using frameworks, just in your mind, perhaps, you "aren't"<p>this whole framework vs no framework vs BS vs BS vs BS has gotten really out of hand, and 99% of devs cant see the forest from the trees<p>what in the world did i just read