# I strongly recommend, in the rare cases when writing HTML by hand is
untenable, rolling your own…

A template engine that cannot be written by a single developer in a few
minutes is one that is too heavy (and liable to produce sites that…

* * *

I strongly recommend, in the rare cases when writing HTML by hand is
untenable, rolling your own static site generator or template engine.

A template engine that cannot be written by a single developer in a few
minutes is one that is too heavy (and liable to produce sites that are too
heavy); rolling your own — and rolling a new one for different kinds of pages
— keeps complexity down by keeping it exposed.

By [John Ohno](https://medium.com/@enkiv2) on [March 12,
2019](https://medium.com/p/961b90e97a2e).

[Canonical link](https://medium.com/@enkiv2/i-strongly-recommend-in-the-rare-
cases-when-writing-html-by-hand-is-untenable-rolling-your-own-961b90e97a2e)

Exported from [Medium](https://medium.com) on September 18, 2020.