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Re: Show HN: Publish a Markdown website in 5 minutes

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Post by jhpaul »

ricardobeat wrote: post #99
RockyMcNuts wrote: post #36

Making a modern, responsive, mobile-aware website seems like a huge learning curve right now. It would be great if there was a tool that let you use simple markdown, took a few options, and generated beautiful static pages like e.g. Medium with a minimum of hassles. I guess a lot of people use WordPress with themes, or Weebly, SquareSpace but it still seems pretty complicated.

If you want Medium, why not use Medium?

medium is blog focused, a medium post is a post on your account. this is a standard single webpage

Re: Show HN: Publish a Markdown website in 5 minutes

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Post by codethief »

avn2109 wrote: post #110
paulddraper wrote: post #42

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Aw...this makes me so sad. I need to fix my brain. Every time I see "static sites", I think "oh great, no dynamic server or client code, just static HTML/CSS for fast loading". If I'm going to have to undergo a "compile step" for my website, it's going to do something worthwhile, darn it.

I keep waiting for someone to write a program that consumes as input Markdown text and emits as output a pure HTML/CSS site literally like this http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ except with the text from the Markdown file instead of swear words. Maybe it could even accept several Markdown files and make them into blog posts or something. If nobody else does I guess eventually I'll get fed up and build it myself…

If you don't want anything complicated you could actually use Pandoc to generate the HTML for you. Then you could either insert the resulting HTML into a layout template yourself or have Pandoc do it (by creating a template for Pandoc).

EDIT: Oops, Pandoc was already mentioned. I should have refreshed the site.

Re: Show HN: Publish a Markdown website in 5 minutes

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Post by codethief »

avn2109 wrote: post #140
kornish wrote: post #124

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Plenty of static site generators, as they're called, exist to do this. Good jumping-off points would be investigating Jekyll (written in Ruby) and Hugo (written in Golang). https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll https://github.com/spf13/hugo

Yup but they're bloated.

I agree. In Hugo's case there wasn't even a way to generate a completely static website for the longest time (i.e. not a blog or anything like that) and I'm not even sure they've fixed it yet.

Re: Show HN: Publish a Markdown website in 5 minutes

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Post by [deleted] »

kornish wrote: post #124
avn2109 wrote: post #110

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I keep waiting for someone to write a program that consumes as input Markdown text and emits as output a pure HTML/CSS site literally like this http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ except with the text from the Markdown file instead of swear words. Maybe it could even accept several Markdown files and make them into blog posts or something. If nobody else does I guess eventually I'll get fed up and build it myself…

Plenty of static site generators, as they're called, exist to do this. Good jumping-off points would be investigating Jekyll (written in Ruby) and Hugo (written in Golang). https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll https://github.com/spf13/hugo

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Re: Show HN: Publish a Markdown website in 5 minutes

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Post by erelde »

paulddraper wrote: post #123
avn2109 wrote: post #110

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I keep waiting for someone to write a program that consumes as input Markdown text and emits as output a pure HTML/CSS site literally like this http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ except with the text from the Markdown file instead of swear words. Maybe it could even accept several Markdown files and make them into blog posts or something. If nobody else does I guess eventually I'll get fed up and build it myself…

I've used Pandoc. You can generate a HTML fragment, or an HTML file, or HTML with table of contents, CSS, and footer, etc. http://pandoc.org/demos.html It has some pretty heavy dependencies, but so far I haven't found anything better for generating a true static site from Markdown. I probably haven't looked hard enough either.

+1 for Pandoc

I use it a lot, I've collected of quite large collection of long form articles/"opinion pieces"/etc from websites and used pandoc to translate them into epub. (after manually pruning some html)

Re: Show HN: Publish a Markdown website in 5 minutes

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Post by codethief »

scrollaway wrote: post #135
fredley wrote: post #96

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Only blogs, I primarily build this for my own use.

I will look at it anyway, but the #1 issue with hugo/pelican is that they essentially force you into the "you have posts and you have a homepage that embeds posts" logic. It's super annoying. Jekyll has a ton of issues but it gets it right at least: any page you make becomes a page on the site.

I couldn't agree more – after reading a recommendation for hugo I spent hours browsing its docs thinking "So how the hell do I build a simple static website?!"

Re: Show HN: Publish a Markdown website in 5 minutes

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Post by hawski »

avn2109 wrote: post #110
paulddraper wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aw...this makes me so sad. I need to fix my brain. Every time I see "static sites", I think "oh great, no dynamic server or client code, just static HTML/CSS for fast loading". If I'm going to have to undergo a "compile step" for my website, it's going to do something worthwhile, darn it.

I keep waiting for someone to write a program that consumes as input Markdown text and emits as output a pure HTML/CSS site literally like this http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ except with the text from the Markdown file instead of swear words. Maybe it could even accept several Markdown files and make them into blog posts or something. If nobody else does I guess eventually I'll get fed up and build it myself…

I found something exactly like it: https://github.com/alexanderteinum/simple-website/

Example: https://alexanderteinum.github.io/

Lately I was searching for static site generator that would require no configuration. It is written in single file of straightforward go. It gives you just two sections: posts and pages.

Re: Show HN: Publish a Markdown website in 5 minutes

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Post by bigge »

arikr wrote: post #122
bigge wrote: post #102

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Sounds like you're looking for something similar to what i just released today. It's a service called Idnty and let's you create a simple and clean personal page in no time. No custom domains yet but it's in the pipeline. Please have a look, https://idnty.me

Nice. Timeline on custom domains? And yes, this looks good for me. I won't use it for a personal homepage, I'll use it for other sites, but seems easy to use it for non-personal homepage sites too.

Cool, thanks for positive feedback! Custom domains will hopefully make it before the end of the year. Will try to get there faster if possible.

Re: Show HN: Publish a Markdown website in 5 minutes

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Post by bigge »

kristerv wrote: post #114
bigge wrote: post #102

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Sounds like you're looking for something similar to what i just released today. It's a service called Idnty and let's you create a simple and clean personal page in no time. No custom domains yet but it's in the pipeline. Please have a look, https://idnty.me

wow that's awesome.

Thanks! Really like your project as well. We're kinda trying to solve the same problem, but with totally different approaches :)
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