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lowtechguys
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How to build a website without frameworks and tons of libraries
I use something very similar on https://lunar.fyi and https://lowtechguys.com but I wouldn’t call this “simple” anymore.
They use Jinja templating, I prefer Slim (https://github.com/slim-template/slim#syntax-example) which has a more Pythonic syntax (there is plim [0] in Python for that)
I use Tailwind as well for terse styling and fast experimentation (allows me to write a darkMode-aware and responsive 100 line CSS in a single line with about 10 classes)
For interaction I can write CoffeeScript directly in the page [1] and have it compiled by plim.
I run a Caddy static server [2] and use Syncthing [3] to have every file save deployed instantly to my Hetzner server.
I use entr [4] and livereloadx [5] to rebuild the pages and do hot reload on file save. All the commands are managed in a simple Makefile [6]
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You can already see how the footnotes take up a large chunk of this comment, this is not my idea of simple. Sure, the end result is readable static HTML and I never have to fight obscure React errors, but it’s a high effort setup for starters.
Simple for me would be: write markdown files for pages, a simple CSS for general styling (should be optional), click to deploy on my domain. Images should automatically be resized to multiple sizes and optimized, videos re-encoded for smaller filesize etc.
I have mostly implemented that for myself (https://notes.alinpanaitiu.com/How%20I%20write%20this%20blog...) but it feels fragile. I’d rather pay for a professional solution.
[0] https://plim.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
[1] https://github.com/FuzzyIdeas/lowtechguys/blob/main/src/rcmd...
[2] https://caddyserver.com/docs/command-line#caddy-file-server
[3] https://syncthing.net
[4] https://github.com/eradman/entr
[5] https://nitoyon.github.io/livereloadx/
[6] https://github.com/FuzzyIdeas/lowtechguys/blob/main/Makefile
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Anime.js – A lightweight JavaScript animation library
One less known use case for this is creating animated UI demos, which as a dev I find harder to do using video editing software.
I used it to create the simple demo on the rcmd frontpage: https://lowtechguys.com/rcmd
This is the code, where I'm just animating elements of an SVG I previously created with Sketch: https://github.com/FuzzyIdeas/lowtechguys/blob/main/src/rcmd...
I'm also doing the same thing for the Lunar frontpage: https://lunar.fyi/
But because Lunar's demo is a lot more resource intensive, I pre-rendered it into a video, and heavily optimized it for each screen size, in H.265, WEBM and H.264.
anime.js
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React Refs Ritual: Managing Focus, Selections, and More.
This direct manipulation allows you to leverage robust animation libraries like GSAP or Anime.js, which require direct DOM access to perform optimally.
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Incredible JavaScript Animation Libraries
Anime.js is celebrated for its simplicity, speed, and versatility. This compact library simplifies the animation process, enabling developers to craft visually striking animations with minimal effort. Anime.js supports a wide array of effects like scaling, morphing, and rotating, offering developers the tools to create complex timelines and animations with ease.
- Can we talk about the absolute chokehold GSAP has on the industry?
- My Journey in Making "Coin Factory": A Web Game
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10 Best Javascript Animation Libraries 🎉
anime.js • JavaScript animation engine
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Frontend development roadmap
Animejs
- A Modern High-Performance Open Source Message Queuing System
- anime: is a lightweight JavaScript animation library with a simple, yet powerful API. It works with CSS properties, SVG, DOM attributes and JavaScript Objects
- Anime.js – A lightweight JavaScript animation library
- anime.js - a lightweight JavaScript animation library
What are some alternatives?
org-mode-site-template - A workflow for a complete site using the HTML publish option of Emacs Org-Mode
GreenSock-JS - GSAP (GreenSock Animation Platform), a JavaScript animation library for the modern web
10kbclub - A curated collection of websites whose home pages do not exceed 10 KB compressed size
animate.css - 🍿 A cross-browser library of CSS animations. As easy to use as an easy thing.
surreal - 🗿 Mini jQuery alternative. Dependency-free animations. Locality of Behavior. Use one element or arrays transparently. Pairs with htmx. Vanilla querySelector() but better!
velocity - Accelerated JavaScript animation.
fat - Web's fastest and most lightweight animation tool.
lottie-to-svg - Convert a lottie animation to an SVG file
editable-website - A SvelteKit template for building CMS-free editable websites
Mo.js - The motion graphics toolbelt for the web
Slim - Slim is a template language whose goal is to reduce the syntax to the essential parts without becoming cryptic.
particles.js - A lightweight JavaScript library for creating particles