This minimalist static site generator pattern is only for developers who want something small, fast, flexible, and comprehensible jan.miksovsky.com/posts/2025/0

Configuring a complex tool can take more work that just coding the functionality from scratch. Earlier I created a simple blog in , a popular . That felt more complicated than the problem justified, so I rewrote the entire project from scratch in pure JavaScript with 0 dependencies.

This went very well!

Chart comparing size of source code of 22K for zero dependency version and 11K for Astro versionChart comparing 0 node_modules for zero dependency and 117Mb for Astro version
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