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by faza 20 days ago
Thanks. Glad you liked it.

I had no plans for inline interactive elements when I started out. It was just a plain static site using Astro, with my content in markdown files.

When I thought of including interactive elements, I saw that Astro supported MDX, which lets you embed custom JavaScript components. At the start I was just using plain JavaScript, SVG, and CSS transitions to do the animations, but as the simulations became more complex, I started using React to manage state better.