In my last post I talked about pushing back on the complexity of JavaScript frameworks. Now I’m thinking about taking this further. In the name of maintainability, I think I am going to make an alternate version of our library page: a “minimum viable website”. I’ll strip out as much of the JavaScript as absolutely possible. I’ll simplify the CSS. I’ll format it nicely with prettier, then I’ll stick it in a LibGuides group (and on GitHub) as a backup, in case for some reason no one is around to maintain the current production page. This way, if someone needs to roll back to a very technically simple page, there will be something for them to turn to.

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