👋 Welcome to the source code of my personal website!

If you visit it, you might ask yourself: is this dude joking?
It just shows his name being typed out — even my grandma could do that these days with AI!

Well, you’re absolutely right! It’s very simple and could easily be done in just a few lines of HTML, CSS, and JS.
But what if we wanted to write it declaratively instead of imperatively?..

Then things suddenly aren’t so straightforward, and there are lots of questions that need answers.

A good way to write website code declaratively is to use JSX, which I absolutely love — since I normally use React.
But using an existing framework would’ve been way too easy for a single line in the middle of the page.
That’s why I wrote my own simple (and naive) jsx-runtime.

That was something new for me, since I, like many others, usually just take JSX for granted.
But the next bit is even more interesting: at the end of the day, JSX is just syntactic sugar over createElement calls.
To implement the typewriter effect, we’d need to grab elements from the DOM using some ye olde document.querySelector, which makes the code imperative again… or we could ask ourselves: how can we pass state declaratively, and what should happen when that state changes?
Hence — reactivity.ts!

Oh, and typescript-jsx-transformer — because if you know, you know.

Hopefully one day I’ll have more inspiration to put some 🍖 on this website’s 🦴s...