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This is why the internet is amazing!

Awe-inspiring. Beautiful.

How does the author build these pages? Looks like it is React. The entire blog must be custom built, no? Or is this built on top of an existing CMS?

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adrianh|1 year ago

No React to be found (and good riddance). It's two vanilla JavaScript files:

https://ciechanow.ski/js/base.js

https://ciechanow.ski/js/moon.js

undebuggable|1 year ago

Funnily, this JavaScript would not pass through most modern job interviews.

TrackerFF|1 year ago

17.6k LOC just for one post to educate and entertain people. Beautiful.

klabb3|1 year ago

As usual, it's not the tech.. it's the business model.

bradarner|1 year ago

Cheers...Chrome dev tools must have tricked me.

Also nice that the author didn't minify it. Interesting to read through.

maest|1 year ago

Hand crafted, artisanal JavaScript.

jasonjmcghee|1 year ago

You definitely don't need a CMS for a blog. I'd expect most HNer blogs you see here are either html files or markdown processed/styled into html files. I bet various templating solutions are popular too, which just output html files.

astrange|1 year ago

IME the reasons to have one are that you want people to comment and you want other people to write posts sometimes.