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by lancesells 1164 days ago
This will sound snarky but I just write in html and css. No requirements, no set up, no steps.
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At this point, that's like being proud you write in assembly while all the hipsters use C++. Or it's like being proud you don't use any libraries in Go.

Build steps aren't evil. For most projects, you never even touch them. You use a project template and then you're done.

What you get in return is an amount of work no human can do by hand: type-checking, tree-shaking, cross-browser shims, image optimization... it's a huge list.

At this point, I wouldn't hire someone who thinks build steps are a waste of time. Programmers should know the value of automating complex manual tasks.

Do your clients take the HTML/CSS and manually edit/add/remove pages themselves?
For a lot of content this really works.

What sticks with me in a way that I don't love is that this and many other modern, simple-ish solutions to having a lightweight CMS still relies on some Postgres config. I'm being picky, but I want a DB without having to think about the DB at all. Just templates plz.

That’s good for you but did you know many people don’t know how to code in HTML and CSS?