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What is the simplest way to host a website closer to barebones HTML, CSS, and a bit of JS with reusable components like nav bars? My experiences handling those manually leads to too much overhead as I add more pages. SvelteKit makes things fairly easy to organize, but I dislike how the user isn’t served simple HTML, CSS, and JS files. Ideally, I don’t want to use any framework.

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It's called PHP and you can host it anywhere, or if there's nothing dynamic going on, run it on the files on your computer and upload the generated HTML/CSS/JS files to an S3 bucket.

    src/index.php
    ---------
    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <html>
    <head><title>Hey look ma, we're back to PHP</title></head>
    <body>
    <? include "navbar.php" ?>
    
      <p>Don't forget about PHP - a hypertext preprocessor!</p>
    
    <? include footer.php ?>
    </body>
    </html>
    
    src/navbar.php
    ----------
    <div>
        <ul>
          <li>Home</li>
          <li>About</li>
        </ul>
    </div>


    Makefile to generate a static site:
    -----------------------------------   
    dist/index.html: src/index.php

    dist/about.html: src/about.php

    dist/%.html: src/%.php
          @mkdir -p ${dir $@}
          php $< > $@

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