Create CMS-editable pages with no client-side JS or frameworks

Bryan Robinson &
9:03 min
Jan 29, 2021

In modern development, there are so many great tools for developing websites, but often they are more than what’s necessary for a given project. In this lightning talk, we’ll explore how to take a humble HTML page and make its content editable in a CMS with no frameworks and no client-side JavaScript.

Our final product will be a website that only contains HTML. That’s right, no CSS, no JS. Just pure markup! We’ll explore how to create a build process to fetch data from a third-party API, run it through a templating engine, and finish with a lovely set of semantic HTML that any browser could love.

Bryan Robinson

Head of Developer Advocacy at Hygraph

Bryan has been building websites, communities, and relationships for the past 15 years. He’s created hand-crafted websites ranging from large-scale news sites to boutique sites for small businesses. He’s built local communities of practice and online communities centered around products. He loves sharing knowledge in whatever form – meetups, conferences, articles, videos, and quick chats.

Currently, Bryan is exploring the highs and lows of community building as a Senior Developer Advocate at Orbit.love – a product for community builders and developer advocates to measure and create healthy, vibrant communities.

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