Writing HTML by hand is easier than debugging your static site generator (2024)
4 months ago
- #static-site-generators
- #web-development
- #maintenance
- Static site generators can be cumbersome to set up and maintain across different machines.
- Debugging programming language installations, package ecosystems, and deployment models adds unnecessary complexity.
- Maintaining a website as a folder of static HTML files simplifies setup and maintenance.
- Using tools like Emacs' nxml mode or tpope's ragtag with autoformatting can enhance productivity.
- Static data in a validated format is preferable to dynamic code for long-term maintenance.
- 11ty is recommended as a flexible and well-designed static site generator.