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After trying a bunch of fancy frameworks and platforms I ended up doing exactly this - a static site with alpinejs and tailwind. It has been by far the best decision I've ever made. And the best thing is I'm confident any new dev will be able to pick up my 100 line build file and grok it in about 3min. No matter whether they're react, angular, PHP or python folks - it's dead simple and I love it.

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Lately I've been doing raw html and css. No build. I just write the files. It's really easy. Yeah there's some duplicate code in the header but grep is not that hard to use.

Now move to the next level and have no build system.

i am building sites with aurelia without a build system. there used to be a quick-start tutorial where you could just download an archive with aurelia ready to run. no serverside tools or build tools necessary at all. it even used to work loading the whole app via file://... back when browsers still trusted that. it no longer works only because of browser restrictions on using file://

the tutorial is gone, but the download still exists referenced here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/39681911

the downside is that i don't know how to update this to newer versions or add extensions.

it might also be possible to create a new version of this using aurelia-cli, but i haven't yet figured out how.

My build system is cat!

Meow!

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