[catapart]

Good on ya! HTML+JS is plenty performant for a blog and I'm always happy to see more people eschewing frameworks when they're not necessary.

I've been writing a progressive web app that is, itself, a "web component" (custom element), built entirely with custom elements, so I feel like I've got a pretty good idea of how you can tackle that header reuse bullet point. Happy to give pointers if you're interested in that at all.

Anyway, great job on simplifying things! I hope it gets easier from here!

[robertlagrant]

I think it's rarely about performance and more about organisation. If there's only one developer and it's fairly basic, you neither need the code organising nor state propagation benefits that come with most modern frameworks.