Simplify website structure

[JonasASchmidt]

Suggestions:

• Reduce dependencies
• Simplify template engine implementation
• Remove unused or unnecessary technologies and libraries
• Comply to web standards
• Make code reusable
• Keep the website lightning fast

[herschel666]

Reduce dependencies

The approach is currently quite lean already when it comes to the generated website, so there's imho not much to shave off.

Simplify template engine implementation

Could you specify this? Is it about Pug? Or the fragmentation into (too many) partials and blocks? Or…?

Remove unused or unnecessary technologies and libraries

Again, do you have certain technologies/libraries on your mind here?

[herschel666]

Also would you consider it an improvement to abandon the current, rather custom-made approach with Metalsmith, and switch to a better documented static site generator like e.g. https://www.11ty.io/??