I recommend checking out https://forestry.io/
We've been testing out Cloud Cannon on our website - www.cloudcannon.com. Different approach from forestry - definitely going to check that one out as well.
Static Website Generators
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#152The main problem for me is that the absolute majority of them target blogs and if you try to adapt them for a more complicated website you gonna dive very deep inside the code or continue constant search. Now I look at hugo as it seems to be a more general-purpose tool that allows to play with structure and content types.
This is all about to change, think of Github as a database, with a server side rendered page hooked up to it. There exist databases that work like git, and React/virtual dom does server-side rendering, so coming soon are frameworks that give you proper database apps, coded in javascript, that are CDN compatible. I've actually built this already but we haven't launched it publicly yet. If interested, you can give us your email at http://www.hypercrud.com
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#153Anything that supports .docx documents?
Sure. Just save it as the terrible HTML that Word generates on its own.
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#154Another good alternative is Grav https://getgrav.org
That's not a SSG, is it? Last I remember reading about it, it was still a dynamic site, just powered by a flat file DB.
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#155The main problem for me is that the absolute majority of them target blogs and if you try to adapt them for a more complicated website you gonna dive very deep inside the code or continue constant search. Now I look at hugo as it seems to be a more general-purpose tool that allows to play with structure and content types.
Personally, the biggest issues is the CMS backend part of the process. I'm fine writing content for an SSG, but the marketing department is not. What I really want is a fast, open, and simple CMS BE that has a publishing workflow where the output is a static site. I've yet to fine the perfect candidate. The ones that are close are SaaS platforms and that is unfortunately unacceptable. I'm perfectly ok paying for soft…
Isn't https://www.getlektor.com what you're looking for?
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#156I crave simplicity in my life right now and am using markdeep: https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/ I write my documents in markdown and add this tag at the end of my document I "publish it" by copying it to my server and renaming it .html * note: To get started, here is the suggested starter document: https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/starter.md.html
Thanks. That's a nice idea... but if it's that simple I might as well just use a static markdown to html converter, if I don't need the support for diagram generation (which admittedly looks like a killer feature). For example, pandoc supports that (or latex -> html or pretty much anything else), and the results are similar, e.g. (in this case, specifying a very small amount of additional css):
http://pandoc.org/demo/example3.html
I'm currently using couscous (http://couscous.io/) to convert markdown to html but it's far more work to use, and does a whole bunch more than that, such as twig templates, so I'll consider switching to markdeep or pandoc.
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#157The main problem for me is that the absolute majority of them target blogs and if you try to adapt them for a more complicated website you gonna dive very deep inside the code or continue constant search. Now I look at hugo as it seems to be a more general-purpose tool that allows to play with structure and content types.
Personally, the biggest issues is the CMS backend part of the process. I'm fine writing content for an SSG, but the marketing department is not. What I really want is a fast, open, and simple CMS BE that has a publishing workflow where the output is a static site. I've yet to fine the perfect candidate. The ones that are close are SaaS platforms and that is unfortunately unacceptable. I'm perfectly ok paying for soft…
There are a number Content-as-a-Service offerings that can be used with static site generators. (Though not usually with GitHub's built-in Jekyll support as it doesn't allow for plugins)
Examples: Contentful, Prismic.io, Built.io, CloudCMS
Full disclosure: I work for Contentful
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#158http://www.staticgen.com/ seems to provide a more exhaustive (and searchable) listing
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#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
You should try Lektor ( https://www.getlektor.com/ ). It has a flexible data structure with little assumption about the final product.
I used lektor for http://portfolio.stavros.io/ and it was very easy to make what I wanted. I kind of assumed Jekyll and everything else would be like that too, are they not?
Some of the most popular static generators, such as Jekyll, are explicitly designed for blog posts.
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#160For those thinking of writing a ssg as a challenge, I recommend reading Rhodes and Rocco's _500 Lines or Less_ [1] chapter about an incremental build system. It describes the general strategy behind tup.
[1] http://aosabook.org/en/500L/contingent-a-fully-dynamic-build...