Show HN: LilBlog – Blog Software Written in Only HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

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You should have a section of "Why not?" in your readme:

- Google cannot crawl by default (Google is crawling JS websites now, but I bet it doesn't run JS on any website it founds).

- Writing your posts in raw JSON is crazy.

- If you need to write HTML you'll need an external tool, and this breaks your argument against Jekyll and other static site generators (I don't like the fact that Jekyll needs Ruby and a lot of things, but there are a lot of other static website generators with very little requirements out there).

- Why not write raw HMTL in raw HTML files instead? This is much more "what you see is what you get" than writing everything in a big JSON file.

Good idea. I'll add a pitfalls section. I usually write in notepad and copy it over. I don't write straight in JSON. Why would you need an external tool to write HTML? Sure, they help a ton, but I can get the job done in notepad.

I did consider using raw HTML files, but I wanted everything that needs to be updated in one place, in one file.

I don't like this idea, but in this case YAML is probably better than JSON (also you can keep your JSON files, since any JSON is valid YAML).

What am I gaining using YAML? JSON is a well-known standard and used everywhere.

Hi HN. I've used plenty of different blog platforms in the past. I've recently been looking for something dead simple. A lot of static-site generators like Jekyll work well, but I wanted something simpler that didn't have any server side requirements. So I created LilBlog. Feedback is appreciated. Thanks.

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