[epiccoleman]

Catalyst looks pretty neat. I decided not to go with any kind of component system for the latest iteration of my blog / personal site, and overall I like that decision - I know how everything on the site works, and I just write articles in plain HTML. I really enjoy the flexibility I get from this approach, and it's allowed me to do some neat layout things on certain articles without having to figure out how to escape from the context of a SSG or whatever.

I will say, though, that there's a bit more manual labor involved in setting up a page and writing content than I would prefer. In some of my articles it would have definitely saved time to just write the content in markdown, and there are a few repeated components on each page that would definitely be nice to extract out.

So anyway, maybe some kind of minor refactor is in order - although every time I consider doing this, I try to remind myself that actually writing / making content is the more important thing to spend time on. Maybe if I ever get to the point where I'm writing multiple posts a week it would be worth optimizing the workflow more.

[ctnicholas]

Right, the most important thing is getting your posts out there! I say do what works best for you, we all have knowledge and experience in different areas, and there isn't a single solution for everyone.

[johnchristopher]

https://jade-lang.com/ is close to html and not verbose.