I think aiming for pure HTML/CSS is good but doesn’t need to be the goal. There is a time and a place for JavaScript where it should be added thoughtfully and with minimal external dependencies.

Design

![](https://m.stacker.news/106658)

Imagine a web page that loads instantly, deploys effortlessly, and never needs a security update.

I’m using pure HTML and CSS to accomplish all that and to build things in a fraction of the time.

### Building HTML pages is easy
As software engineers, I think we have a tendency to over-engineer things. If you’ve built web pages recently, you probably used HTML and CSS, but you probably also used a complex framework, over-engineered JavaScript, crazy deployment routines, and more.

By contrast, for me, building pure HTML and CSS pages is a breeze and a joy.