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Ask HN: Do you suggest static site generators to your customers?

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Re: Ask HN: Do you suggest static site generators to your customers?

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Post by shimon_e »

michaelt wrote: post #17

I use a static site generator for my blog - but as I only post once or twice a year, I generally find I'm fixing broken static site generation about as often as I'm writing a blog post. Using a mac? I hope you've got xcode installed to give you command line tools. No, you can't get that to work without logging into your Apple account. Right, now just install these tools using homebrew. Oh, homebrew's giving some git…

And this is why I love arch linux and even use it on all my servers. These days I rarely run into a package that doesn't work or is severely outdated.

Re: Ask HN: Do you suggest static site generators to your customers?

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Post by thangngoc89 »

michaelt wrote: post #17

I use a static site generator for my blog - but as I only post once or twice a year, I generally find I'm fixing broken static site generation about as often as I'm writing a blog post. Using a mac? I hope you've got xcode installed to give you command line tools. No, you can't get that to work without logging into your Apple account. Right, now just install these tools using homebrew. Oh, homebrew's giving some git…

Hey, I think you're mistaking static site generator === Jekyll. My favorite is Hugo[1]. Just grab the binary and it can run everywhere. I mean everywhere. No need to setup the build tools, environment

[1]: https://gohugo.io/

Re: Ask HN: Do you suggest static site generators to your customers?

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Post by beat »

thangngoc89 wrote: post #23
michaelt wrote: post #17

I use a static site generator for my blog - but as I only post once or twice a year, I generally find I'm fixing broken static site generation about as often as I'm writing a blog post. Using a mac? I hope you've got xcode installed to give you command line tools. No, you can't get that to work without logging into your Apple account. Right, now just install these tools using homebrew. Oh, homebrew's giving some git…

Hey, I think you're mistaking static site generator === Jekyll. My favorite is Hugo[1]. Just grab the binary and it can run everywhere. I mean everywhere. No need to setup the build tools, environment [1]: https://gohugo.io/

I switched to Hugo too. I haven't really dug deeply enough into it, though.

Re: Ask HN: Do you suggest static site generators to your customers?

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Post by shakna »

Yes. But they don't know it. They just know that their site is faster than their competitors.

I've got a smallish piece of JS that gives the client a WYSIWYG editor, which speaks to Firebase.

When Firebase gets an update, it triggers a rebuild.

Best of both worlds.

Re: Ask HN: Do you suggest static site generators to your customers?

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Post by ComputerGuru »

qznc wrote: post #14
xiaoma wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

WordPress has had one-click updates for years and makes it easier than any other CMS I've seen. It's been doing a fine job and powering 25% of all pages on the net and growing.

The problem is that updating plugins very often breaks stuff.

I've been running a heavily customized WordPress with literally dozens of plugins since 2005 and that has most definitely not been my experience.

Re: Ask HN: Do you suggest static site generators to your customers?

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Post by thangngoc89 »

Most of my customers are small business and they only update their website like 2-3 times per years. I built all of these websites with a static site generator and all text is extracted from a YAML/JSON files. If some customers requires editing the data themselves, I put a dead simple frontend on top of it for them.

Re: Ask HN: Do you suggest static site generators to your customers?

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Post by thangngoc89 »

beat wrote: post #24
thangngoc89 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey, I think you're mistaking static site generator === Jekyll. My favorite is Hugo[1]. Just grab the binary and it can run everywhere. I mean everywhere. No need to setup the build tools, environment [1]: https://gohugo.io/

I switched to Hugo too. I haven't really dug deeply enough into it, though.

If it's working for you, no need to dig it. That's my principle.

Re: Ask HN: Do you suggest static site generators to your customers?

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Post by rolae »

There are now several competing nice services, that give you and your customer a UI to edit your static site with a webtool.

https://cloudcannon.com / https://forestry.io/ / https://www.siteleaf.com/

With all of them you can set up nice content type templates and get your client to put structured content.

edit: formatting

Re: Ask HN: Do you suggest static site generators to your customers?

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Post by thangngoc89 »

rolae wrote: post #29

There are now several competing nice services, that give you and your customer a UI to edit your static site with a webtool. https://cloudcannon.com / https://forestry.io/ / https://www.siteleaf.com/ With all of them you can set up nice content type templates and get your client to put structured content. edit: formatting

Also * https://datocms.com * https://prismic.io/ * https://www.contentful.com/
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