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Love that you can read the entire source in a few hundred lines of dead simple JS[1].

[1] https://github.com/boramalper/Essential-YouTube/blob/master/...

Came here just to say this. Pleasantly surprised to see front-end project without a package.json, a bundler, a UI library. Even the templating is inline!

The template being inline is a bug, not a feature in my opinion. You can actually write arbitrary templates into HTML using <script type='text/template'> (or really any type other than 'javascript'), and with a simple function get ~90% of the power of template strings in languages such as ES6 or Python. Writing your templates into JS like that is plain ugly and unmaintainable.

I agree, but I didn't know any such solution while developing it. I'll probably switch to a client-side templating library.

I agree writing templates into JS like that is plain ugly. Using HTML5 template[1] tag is a better way to go. I used it in a fun project[2] and it works flawlessly in all modern browsers

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/HTML/Element/templ...

[2]: https://github.com/shashankgroovy/notif

[2] works better with the y at the end ;-)

https://github.com/shashankgroovy/notify

Could just be the next iteration of Motif[1]... ;-)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motif_(software)

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