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Re: Offbase: Static site generator in a browser

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Post by itake »

Xevi wrote: post #49

Maybe I'm missing something, but it appears that the only difference between this and other static site generators is that you can edit stuff in the browser, right? I usually just edit my pages in VS Code, or any other markdown editor. Then I push to a Git repository, and my CDN (Netlify, Vercel, etc) builds the site automatically.

That is how I interpreted it, but I think their marketing is completely wrong. Developers will do what you do. Marketing / Small biz owners do not want to learn git, cdns, etc.

https://forestry.io/ removes the complexity, but keeps all of the benefits of git static hosted websites allowing non-technical people to manage static websites.

Developers wont use this, but non-technical people _might_.

ps: I have no association with forestry

Re: Offbase: Static site generator in a browser

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Post by warkdarrior »

skogard wrote: post #46
breck wrote: post #42

This is great! The whole "Git is eating the database world" trend is picking up steam. MDN/Yari, mentioned recently on here was another similar one https://github.com/mdn/yari I am planning on doing something similar to Offbase with Dub ( https://github.com/treenotation/dumbdown/tree/master/dub ). Each post will be written in Dumbdown, but then also a whole "blog" (posts, settings, pages, etc), you will be able to vi…

Thank you, in the video I intentionally positioned Offbase as a "static site generator" and a "blogging engine" just to focus the minimal viable product and avoid confusion, but the actual platform I'm working toward releasing is really a generic shell that can run anything, the blogging package will be the one thing I will focus on building myself, but since it will be a completely open platform where you can downlo…

> You can think of Offbase as something like Electron, but in a browser.

Uhh, the messaging is now even more confused.

Electron is a framework for creating native applications with web technologies like JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.

The browser is a framework for creating web-based applications with web technologies like JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.

So what does it mean "Electron in a browser"?

Re: Offbase: Static site generator in a browser

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Post by XCSme »

proyb wrote: post #26
XCSme wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree, many always start with the premise "hosting is hard", but maybe this was true 20 years ago, now hosting providers let you spin-up a server in a few clicks, have monitoring, alerts, automatic updates and more. The good part is that for 99.99% of the time, once you set-up a server it could keep on running without issues for many years. I am not a sys-admin but I have used multiple hosting providers (shared, VP…

True, sadly shared hosting still limit with capped disk IO and bandwidth at a premium price which would be similar or more than competitive VPS in performance. I'm still looking out for competitive VPS provider other than UpCloud if you have any recommendations.

I think that most of the VPS providers have similar prices, I personally use DigitalOcean as I really like their interface.

Re: Offbase: Static site generator in a browser

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Post by z3t4 »

sradman wrote: post #47

Perfectly sound architecture that does not need an intermediary like Netflify: 1. Browser-Side Service Worker 2. Git - mutable file system via REST 3. CDN - deploy to multiple CDNs I didn't look at the code but I suspect it could be made to be isomorphic and run in Cloudflare Workers but the code surrounding credentials used for Git and CDN access probably needs to distinguish between the browser-side and server-side…

Could run Git entirely in the browser (isomorphic-git). Then use peer2peer to host the content. The web editor/static site generator could be bootstrapped from a bookmark/URL that pulls the app from peer2peer.

Re: Offbase: Static site generator in a browser

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Post by jeromenerf »

rubiquity wrote: post #45

I hate to be the person that needs to point it out, but you can't say replace "the cloud with x" and replace "servers with x" and then 500 pixels down the page talk about how you're pushing your static site to a CDN. Perhaps the target audience won't recognize how dishonest that is, but it's still a lie.

Yeah, and I would coin CDN as Cloud Debris Network, where abandoned pet projects and crap content is orbiting forever forgotten.

Re: Offbase: Static site generator in a browser

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Post by isaacimagine »

sradman wrote: post #47

Perfectly sound architecture that does not need an intermediary like Netflify: 1. Browser-Side Service Worker 2. Git - mutable file system via REST 3. CDN - deploy to multiple CDNs I didn't look at the code but I suspect it could be made to be isomorphic and run in Cloudflare Workers but the code surrounding credentials used for Git and CDN access probably needs to distinguish between the browser-side and server-side…

My personal website uses cloudflare workers / cdn to host a CMS-over-GUI system. Has a lightweight automatic git-like CVS for visibility and versioning. Does basic auth too. Just wanted to bring up that this is a very real possibility. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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