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@ryan def check out WebC and start with JS frontmatter. both have a few quirks i’ve had to figure out along the way, but worth the time and effort!

@d3v1an7 my eyes glossed past WebC and I'm pretty excited to check it out now! Diving further into Web Components in general is on my to-do list!

@ryan i did a bit of web dev through the jquery days, then other stuff while react took hold. i kept trying to understand react, because components and props seemed cool, but simple questions like 'why does create-react-app require like 20 packages and what is a babel' were met with 'it doesn't matter, just do the npm install and everything is fine' which i couldn't seem to get past.

so in that context, coming back into web dev a few years back, picking up 11ty and webc, and working reallllly close to the html feels so so so good. components and props without all the other rubbish :)
the lovely thing with 11ty and webc is that you can choose to keep the web component as-is, or just have it build out as html. it's just so nice to work with.

anyway, thx for listening to my ted talk haha

@sjkilleen Will check out Decap and other git-based solutions! Seems like there's a lot to choose from https://www.11ty.dev/docs/cms/

I do like the idea of easy drafting posts easily from my phone!