I Built 8 Landing Page Templates with Zero Dependencies — Here is What I Learned

A few months ago I got tired of the same loop: spin up a React project, install Tailwind, configure PostCSS, add a dozen dev dependencies, and end up with a 200 MB node_modules folder — all for a single landing page that serves static content. So I set myself a challenge: build a collection of production-ready landing page templates using nothing but vanilla HTML and CSS . No frameworks, no build tools, no JavaScript dependencies. Just files you can open in a browser and deploy anywhere. I ended up building eight of them — SaaS, Portfolio, Startup, Mobile App, Agency, Course, Newsletter, and Restaurant — and I learned a surprising amount along the way. Here are the big takeaways. CSS Custom Properties Make Theming Ridiculously Easy The single best decision I made was putting every color, font size, spacing value, and border radius into CSS custom properties on :root . Each template has a theme block at the top of the stylesheet that looks roughly like this: :root { --color-primary : #4