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I did something similar with a resume template [1] where instead of mustache I use angular. The problem with a purely client side solution is that it doesn't sit well with search engines. You would still need to figure out a way send html from your server at least to the search engines if you want to be indexed.

[1] https://github.com/dhawalhshah/modern-resume

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What do you mean? Why? What problem do search engines have indexing static content? I've never heard of anything like this before.

I think he means for the dynamically rendered parts, like "GitHub Watchers".

Oh, right. I read some comments below and figured that it takes JSON and dynamically renders the template client-side, which seems very unnecessary. Why not just generate HTML? Does Jekyll work that way too?

Punch generates static HTML pages using Mustache and JSON, which can be served from a server. Apart from that Punch's renderer can also be used on client-side to render dynamic content. This is elaborated with an example, in the blog post.

Sorry, I misinterpreted what Punch actually is. Maybe you could elaborate in "What is Punch" section that it uses node.js to generate HTML pages?

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll update "What is Punch" section with more elaboration.

And include a picture of a cat.

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