A and expert in the art is a marvel. Think less development and more engineering. The process of speedily assembling the minimum set of markup and style with maximum degrees of freedom. Like you know, a bassist can develop a new playing style, but there’s an engineering path where it’s perfected. OpenUI might end eternal widget development hell?
Can’t beat the hunch that once web components get widespread application there’ll be something like “micro apps”. Interoperable components between all frameworks or something.
I know of four PHP
static site generators.
- Jigsaw: Laravel Blade templates. Source Code
- Couscous: Twig templates. Source Code
- Sculpin: Twig templates. Source Code
- Spress: Twig templates. Source Code
The key advantage is obvious: dynamicity “technically” comes for free. Feedback/debugging loops “can” be made instantaneous, and scaling to a large output is probably not too difficult.
One downside is that corporate minded developers and consumers online will think
you’re a noob for choosing PHP
.
Watching the web tech mainstream/influencers transition back to a first approach is fascinating. Frameworks are returning to single file approaches that bundle and progressively enhance scoped and components automatically.
See syntax for webc/11ty, svelte, enhance, lit/google, vuejs marko, astro, and more in a rare history lesson.