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Richard Skinner
Richard Skinner
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Posted by Richard Skinner
Richard Skinner
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Is the only option for building a basic site is to copy/paste the html from index and style accordingly?

I was thinking today, would there be any benefits to say, writing up html in blocks using JavaScript (such as the document.write method) and applying them accordingly based on what's needed? I'd figure if you have a 30 page site, it might get cumbersome to have 30 full pages of HTML (lots to tweak and change if necessary), when you might be able to simply have a script in each page that applies the proper structure?

I figure that would be more... Idk, DRY.

But I don't know for sure, and that's why I'm asking :)

Thanks!

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Nejc Vukovic
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Nejc Vukovic
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Nejc Vukovic
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Nejc Vukovic
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Hi Richard Skinner .

Well if you look at it this way HTML is the document that gets painted in the browser. JS is there to add interaction to the HTML.

And when you call a URL you get HTML returned not JS.

An article you might be interested in: https://blog.dareboost.com/en/2016/09/avoid-using-document-write-scripts-injection/

Using document.write you have to rewrite the document DOM. Meaning - performance kill... And if there's an error in JS than page breaks.

And a tip -> you can use a Template Tool like Handlebars or Pug .

That should help.