Rino.js 3, Building Modern Websites Without a Frontend Framework

Modern web development has become incredibly powerful. But also increasingly complicated. Many projects begin by installing hundreds of megabytes of dependencies before writing a single page. Frameworks, bundlers, routers, templating systems, CSS tooling, and runtime libraries all solve important problems, but they also introduce additional complexity. I wanted something different. I wanted to build websites that start with plain HTML, while still providing the features developers expect today: Reusable components Markdown support TypeScript CSS and JavaScript bundling Internationalization (i18n) Content collections RSS/Atom feeds Sitemap generation Fast development builds That idea became Rino.js. What is Rino.js? Rino.js is an HTML-first website compiler for building static websites, documentation, blogs, portfolios, company websites, and other content driven projects. Instead of introducing a custom templating language or requiring a frontend framework, Rino.js treats HTML as the primary language. Pages remain valid HTML while additional functionality is added through a small set of build-time conventions. The goal is simple: Write HTML. Generate optimized static websites. Why HTML First? HTML has existed for decades, yet modern web development often treats it as something generated by another language. Rino.js takes the opposite approach. Instead of writing components in JSX or another template language, components are simply HTML files. <component rino-import= "header" ></component> That's all it takes. The compiler replaces the component during the build, producing plain static HTML with no runtime dependency. Starting Rino.js Rino.js has a command that is designed to provide default project. npm create rino@latest Project Shape A Rino.js project usually looks like this: my-site/ rino-config.js dev.js generate.js feed.js sitemap.js backoffice.js pages/ index.html about.html components/ header.html footer.html public/ images/ photo.webp scripts/ export/ app.js