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Re: Static Website Generators

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Post by lsaferite »

pietroalbini wrote: post #155
lsaferite wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

I think the flat-file part is a breaker for my current needs unfortunately. But, being OSS I could perhaps fix that, so I'll add it to my short-list of possible solutions.

Re: Static Website Generators

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Post by michaelmior »

foxhop wrote: post #147
yannovitch wrote: post #120

The main question for me is comments. I don't want to use something like Disqus, and to require something like Discourse would cancel the whole point of having a static site generator that I can host on Github Pages or Gitlab pages. Ideally, what I would like to do is to have an hackernews post automatically generated for each post, and to redirect people to the HN post if they want to comment, but I am not sure that…

Check out the service I'm working on: http://www.remarkbox.com One of the design goals is to _not_ be disqus.

"_not_ be disqus" is a very vague goal. What problems with Disqus are trying to solve?

Re: Static Website Generators

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Post by michaelmior »

lsaferite wrote: post #150
forlorn wrote: post #93

The 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…

It doesn't support translation AFAICT, but I've been playing with DatoCMS[0] and I've been happy with it for my needs. I suppose you probably could build a translation workflow on top of their API if you were feeling ambitious.

[0] http://datocms.com/

Re: Static Website Generators

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Post by xsteadfastx »

yannovitch wrote: post #120

The main question for me is comments. I don't want to use something like Disqus, and to require something like Discourse would cancel the whole point of having a static site generator that I can host on Github Pages or Gitlab pages. Ideally, what I would like to do is to have an hackernews post automatically generated for each post, and to redirect people to the HN post if they want to comment, but I am not sure that…

i used isso (https://posativ.org/isso/) for some static websites. its like a self-hosted disqus.

Re: Static Website Generators

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Post by laurent123456 »

masklinn wrote: post #109
Already__Taken wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's just client side templating. Which has the same problem they all do of being greeted with a white page until ALL the content is ready. If someone is prepared to accept this it's not that hard to accept generating the html page yourself and uploading that.

> That's just client side templating. Which has the same problem they all do of being greeted with a white page until ALL the content is ready. Or being greeted with a white page period if you're using a non-JS enabled HTML client (noscript, CLI browser).

In this particular case, wouldn't they see the plain text markdown? (which in many case is just as good the html)

Re: Static Website Generators

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Post by the_other »

forlorn wrote: post #93

The 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.

Assemble.io served me well for a number of projects, commercial and private. https://github.com/assemble/assemble/

I've not touched it in about 20 months, but when I was using it more often, I found the documentation a bit weak. Everything you'll need is there, but possibly not written in the way you'd hope.

Re: Static Website Generators

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Post by RodericDay »

Nzen wrote: post #160

For 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...

Great link! I'm building my own SSG for fun and this is something I've been thinking about tackling for a while.

Re: Static Website Generators

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Post by foxhop »

michaelmior wrote: post #172
foxhop wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Check out the service I'm working on: http://www.remarkbox.com One of the design goals is to _not_ be disqus.

"_not_ be disqus" is a very vague goal. What problems with Disqus are trying to solve?

I don't want: to serve advertisements, to force people to link to their identity, to cause friction to an already engaged user (no signups form / no captcha), to feel like a bolted on service / widget (I want to feel like part of the site), cluttered ui with to many options.

Hard to put into words the things I don't want Remarkbox to be.

Re: Static Website Generators

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Post by gk1 »

saosebastiao wrote: post #34

What are people using for hosting? I've thought about using github pages, but css ended up being severely limited.

Netlify (https://www.netlify.com/) themselves offer hosting and deployment for static sites, with included add-ons like CDNs, form handling, SSL, etc.

GitHub Pages (https://pages.github.com/) is another popular option but it only supports Jekyll, and if you wanted a CDN, form handler, redirects, and other features then you'd have to tack on other services.

Re: Static Website Generators

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Post by bobfunk »

lllorddino wrote: post #168

Static site generators are easy to learn and host for free on Github pages but setting up TLS with a custom domain name is a pain. I currently have Cloudflare in front handling that for me.

Check out netlify (https://www.netlify.com) - we'll let you setup https with let's encrypt as a one click operation.
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