Offbase: Static site generator in a browser • Hacker News Board

Re: Offbase: Static site generator in a browser

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Post by jpomykala » Mon, Jan 25, 2021, 6:17 PM UTC

What is wrong with Jekyll and Github Pages?

Re: Offbase: Static site generator in a browser

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Post by deburr » Mon, Jan 25, 2021, 6:20 PM UTC

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.

The buck stops earlier than that. "Replace the cloud/server with git" - where is git hosted? On your server or the cloud.

You're not replacing anything.

Re: Offbase: Static site generator in a browser

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Post by jokethrowaway » Mon, Jan 25, 2021, 6:21 PM UTC

mmazing wrote: post #15

Spivak wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't that basic hosting plan still a ready made SaaS platform?

Isn't putting something on Github to host it still a ready made SaaS platform?

Yes but you can run offbase of a local git repo (judging from the post)

Re: Offbase: Static site generator in a browser

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Post by skogard » Mon, Jan 25, 2021, 6:23 PM UTC

warkdarrior wrote: post #53

skogard wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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"?

It lets you write to files. Except that these are files that exist in a self contained virtual file system in the browser. You can do things like fs.writeFile() or fs.readFile() (like electron, but without needing a desktop app, but directly inside the browser), and push that entire file system to a remote git repository, or pull from one.

Re: Offbase: Static site generator in a browser

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Post by Shared404 » Mon, Jan 25, 2021, 6:43 PM UTC

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 like Linode personally.

No BSD options, but they've got a pretty good selection of Linux distros as ready made images.

Re: Offbase: Static site generator in a browser

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Post by drummer » Mon, Jan 25, 2021, 6:44 PM UTC

Good use of AI voice over in the video on the homepage.

Re: Offbase: Static site generator in a browser

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Post by jopsen » Mon, Jan 25, 2021, 6:50 PM UTC

How risky is it to run an Ubuntu server?

Assuming you turn on auto-updates to get security updates.. and do basic hardening like fail2ban.

Does it really need much handholding? (Assuming you don't run vulnerable versions of various server software inside a docker container)

Curious, if going fully static is really that much better..

Re: Offbase: Static site generator in a browser

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Post by notahacker » Mon, Jan 25, 2021, 7:00 PM UTC

JKCalhoun wrote: post #25

tootie wrote: post #21

I think this title is askew. The secret sauce here is that this has a GUI CMS that runs without a server. There's plenty of flat file static site generators that don't require a server.

Can you list a few? I have been wanting to play with an SSG. (Googling sends me down a rabbit hole.)

A list of 332: https://jamstack.org/generators/

(maybe a bit rabbit hole-ish but you can rank by popularity and filter by language and template)

Re: Offbase: Static site generator in a browser

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Post by inflam52 » Mon, Jan 25, 2021, 7:10 PM UTC

I tried to do something similar with a fully client-side static site generator called CMS.js (https://github.com/chrisdiana/cms.js) a few years back. Would have liked to get to the point where the content editor was fully client-side too. I personally like the concept though.

Re: Offbase: Static site generator in a browser

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jan 25, 2021, 7:34 PM UTC

XCSme wrote: post #54

proyb wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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