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0 pointsallenu5y ago0 comments

I like the idea of separating the content from the presentation, although working with JSON directly to create the content, to me, is not fun.

Did you play around with just using markdown directly and embedding html tags in that in a similar way to format the page? I can't imagine myself intentionally writing web content using JSON. I'd probably have some other format up front that would be converted to JSON, but at that point I may as well just write some static page generator to create the html.

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gpnt5y ago

I think it is early to make more conclusions, but I had to adjust my way of thinking to work with WDR. We are so accustomed to thinking data+markup that it is hard to imagine any other way. So, I started to create the JSON data without thinking about the design at all. "What information I would like to see on this page", and I created the JSON thinking only on that. It turns out, creating the render afterward was much easier and faster (and pleasant). It is, at least for me, a new way to think about the page.

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