Bear blog hosts a bunch of technical blogs, is markdown based, and open-source.
Ask HN: What is the best way to author blogs in 2024?
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Re: Ask HN: What is the best way to author blogs in 2024?
#12(I'm biased because I wrote this blog tool, so take my comments with the appropriate skepticism)
I recommend Svekyll (https://extrastatic.dev/svekyll/svekyll-cli). Svekyll combines the simplicity of Jekyll with the power of Svelte.
This is a post I made recently:
https://webiphany.com/2024-04-29-distance-sean-shawn
That post uses Svelte to build interesting animations, includes a AI embedding model right inside the post and runs in your browser.
And, if you want to hack the entire post yourself, scroll to the bottom, click the view source button and then click download. That will download a zip file which can build that post independently by just running "npm i && npm run build". That command generates a single HTML file with everything inlined so you can take that and put it on any static website.
Svekyll posts are just markdown, but you can add anything like vanilla js and Svelte components, and tailwind is included automatically.
I don't see anything else out there that is as simple or expressive as Svekyll. And 99% of that is just that I don't see anything out there that is as simple or expressive as Svelte.
Re: Ask HN: What is the best way to author blogs in 2024?
#13Bear blog hosts a bunch of technical blogs, is markdown based, and open-source. https://bearblog.dev
I do a flavor of this. I use Hugo as my blog system and plugged in the bearblog template to it. Right now I host on GitHub pages with my own custom domain. Works well!
Re: Ask HN: What is the best way to author blogs in 2024?
#14Just put it on WordPress or Wix if you don't mind paying.
If you don't want to pay, use Astro and put it on Vercel or Cloudflare Pages.
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#15Had the same grip as you, so I set out to fix it.
I found solutions out there were either full fledged cms which are cumbersome to setup and honestly distracting.
I was looking for something that was easy to work with like medium or notion, supports markdown syntax, and is fully headless because I like tinkering with the other frontend stuffs. If you have similar issues, check out wisp: https://wisp.blog/.
You can even try out the editor before signing up for anything: https://www.wisp.blog/try-editor
Also if you are looking to have a blog template to just kickstart the process, you can get everything wired up in the next 20 mins with this: https://github.com/Wisp-CMS/nextjs-blog-cms-wisp
Disclaimer: I'm the builder for wisp and have 200+ happy users now.
Re: Ask HN: What is the best way to author blogs in 2024?
#16Write in markdown, transfer it with rsync to a server running hugo or jekyll?
Re: Ask HN: What is the best way to author blogs in 2024?
#17Not sure which one’s the ideal tool but I’m slowly collecting them all here: https://manuelmoreale.com/blog-platforms
This list is great. Thank you for compiling it!
Re: Ask HN: What is the best way to author blogs in 2024?
#18I'd suggest Astro ( https://astro.build/ )
Haven’t tried Astro myself, but AFAICT it’s compatible with AWS Amplify – which in my book is a huge plus.
The Amplify hosting platform is very easy to get started with. I use it with Hugo, it’s super-convenient, IMO.
Re: Ask HN: What is the best way to author blogs in 2024?
#19Write in markdown, transfer it with rsync to a server running hugo or jekyll?
If you don’t want to maintain the infrastructure, you can also just commit to git and push to GitHub, and there have CI build the Hugo/Jekyll website and host it using GitHub pages.
You can easily have your own domain connected to it and GitHub will provide an SSL certificate.
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#20How about github gists? It has comment support built in