# I'm Trying TOML-based Web Prototyping


I want to be able to roll out a test site very quickly. A site, say for netlify, should be easy to generate:

* one source file to produce several pages
* template friendly -- preferably mustache
* mobile first; works in TERMUX on Android

I've decided I don't need markdown. I'll write the HTML and can use tachyons CSS, for fine control.

## Android

TERMUX has removed any command line mustache preprocessors from its repositories. I have installed ruby and gemmed in mustache. yq is available and converts TOML to YAML.

## Serialization

My two cents: machines like reading JSON, people like reading YAML (or pretty JSON), I like writing TOML.

JSON has too much spaghetti -- []{}; -- for easy writing. YAML is highly dependent on indentation; so easy to mess up -- at least for me. TOML's syntax seems much clearer to me. 


## Conversion: TOML -> YAML -> HTML

I'll then use yq to convert the TOML to YAML for processing with ruby mustache.



## Functional CSS

I like Simon Vrachliotis's idea of taking two templating passes at page sources, the first to insert tachyons classes, and the second to produce the final HTML.

=> https://medium.com/@simonswiss/full-re-write-in-10-days-with-tachyons-and-functional-css-a-case-study-part-4-b565745ca1e5

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