Going Buildless - web development without a build step?

Posted by RoboticElfJedi@reddit | programming | View on Reddit | 12 comments

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nsn@reddit

Build step? I've SSH'd into production servers since the late 90s...

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amakai@reddit

My IDE had a live sync with production over FTP.

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guest271314@reddit

Bellard's Home Page and online man pages demonstrate content is superior to gimmicks on over-engineered Web sites.

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OctopodicPlatypi@reddit

Those always remind me of gopherholes, to an extent. The gopher protocol is still alive, but not very well supported.

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guest271314@reddit

Those are ideal Web sites to me. Concerned with content, not gimmicks, or running scripts and splashing around CSS just because.

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vincentofearth@reddit

If your site is big and complicated enough that you’re suffering from a build step, wouldn’t you benefit immensely from the tools & frameworks that have one?

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lelarentaka@reddit

It's like opting to ride a bicycle from LA to New York because a flight ticket is too expensive.

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guest271314@reddit

Oddly enough, HTML is the one where native imports are still an unsolved problem. If you want to include a chunk of HTML in another template, your options are limited:

PHP or some other preprocessor language server-side includes

frames?

There is no real standardized way to do this in just HTML

ProcessingInstructions and data-* attributes.

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