laser

I rolled every page for a while. But after I had fifty pages (most migrated from old blog), changing the template was a waste of my time. Strictly speaking, a tool like laser[0] could have helped, but I am young in clojure-fu. I currently use piecrust[1] to statically generate my markdown through twig (templates) and push these to my site host nearlyfreespeech via ssh. It's pay as you go; I've not needed a dB or CGI, and those are not forced on me. Perhaps I'll be punished if I ever get front paged, but YNGNI. I am trying out metalsmith[2] instead, as I'm more familiar with javascript than php and hence can make plugins for the various bits I need. 0. https://github.com/Raynes/laser 1. http://bolt80.com/piecrust/ 2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7361824

On the subject of clojure -- is my impression correct in that most (all?) web framework/templating frameworks for clojure insist on having the templates be some clojure dsl, rather than "just" "proper" templates (like: eg zope tal)? All the (admittedly quick, todo-app style) clojure web code I've seen always seemed fragile in how the template code was interwoven with the rest of the app (rather than building up a set of values in an environment and compilling a template with that). I prefer to have my templates as far separate from the application as makes sense... edit: Looks like there's at least laser: https://github.com/Raynes/laser Which seems more like what I want than what I've seen elsewhere.