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REWRITING MY WEBSITE IN PLAIN HTML AND CSS

vijayp.dev5 min read

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

This developer rewrote their simple website from SvelteKit to plain HTML and CSS due to frustration with the Javascript bundler and build process, available free time, and a desire to migrate to Cloudflare Pages. The rewrite involved using Pandoc to convert Markdown blog posts to HTML, Python with the `uv` library for scripting, and the `http.server` module for serving the site. The result was a significantly smaller website (~88kb vs ~356kb).