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What do you use for writing HTML by hand? (programming.dev)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I don't like front-end development but I enjoy writing things by hand rather than rely on one-off classes. Even in my blog, I tend to write a lot of HTML manually throughout the post, like creating a quick container to put two images side-by-side and center them, making blockquotes, the occasional nested list, in-line CSS, etc...

I've written some of it in VSCode and Joplin but I didn't find it comfortable to write in either of them. What editor/extensions do you use to make dealing with HTML easier? I'm currently looking at Emmet, but it looks a bit intimidating to learn.

Edit: I ended up using Emmet for writing HTML in general along with Espanso for quickly inserting some templates I use. It's working out pretty well!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I use Vim, but I don't really write pure HTML. I write Markdown and convert it into HTML as needed.

Markdown covers 95% of my HTML use cases, and I embed pure HTML into the Markdown for the last 5%.

My Markdown tools (mostly command line utilities such as Pandoc) handle HTML inside Markdown quite nicely. A few need a special "hey, there's HTML in here, pass it through unchanged" command line flag, if I recall correctly.

In a few advanced cases I'll use a variant of Jinja2 template syntax, and convert that into HTML - often with some converted Markdown mixed into it at build time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Out of curiosity, what do you use to convert markdown to HTML?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

There's lots of good options. I currently prefer https://github.com/gomarkdown/mdtohtml