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Re: Creating a minimalist blog with Jekyll Now

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Post by thedookmaster » Mon, Apr 12, 2021, 4:50 PM UTC

marban wrote: post #12

The real problem with any SSG is where to host and edit Markdown files and images for flexible spur of the moment content creation. I've built my own Wordpress-export-to-static solution to use the native iOS App as a workaround but it feels somewhat clunky — Same with having to run a headless CMS for this in the background; Surprisingly with all the gazillion of MD editors, no one has ever built one with live editing…

https://www.getlektor.com/

lektor offers some of this functionality. editing is done locally through a browser UI, but there may be a way to host the interface. deployments are easy.

Re: Creating a minimalist blog with Jekyll Now

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Post by hasjekyll » Mon, Apr 12, 2021, 8:15 PM UTC

Pawka wrote: post #88

hasjekyll wrote: post #65

What's wrong with hugo + self-hosted nginx on a VPS?

Author's case eliminates the "self-hosted nginx on a VPS" part. While there is no big difference (just a personal preference) if Hugo, Jekyll or other tool is being used to generate HTML from Markdown.

Ah, thanks, I missed that. I also somehow missed the “Just work” requirement which could rule out hugo. In my experience it requires quite a bit of tinkering to get going.

Re: Creating a minimalist blog with Jekyll Now

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Post by ChrisArchitect » Mon, Apr 12, 2021, 8:39 PM UTC

read this whole post out of curiosity about what the heck Jekyll Now was...and then scratched head about why author wasn't just utilizing the github pages platform...aka hosted Jekyll.... c'mon get in touch man

Re: Creating a minimalist blog with Jekyll Now

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Post by vhanda » Tue, Apr 13, 2021, 8:08 AM UTC

justusthane wrote: post #69

vhanda wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Disclaimer: App Author If your Hugo blog is stored in Git, you could try out GitJournal [0][1]. It's a mobile based Markdown editor integrated with Git. Many people seem to use it for managing their Hugo/Jekyll blogs. [0] https://gitjournal.io [1] https://github.com/GitJournal

This looks great! Is it possible to create templates or script workflows in this app? For example, when publishing new blog entry in my Eleventy site, I have to create a new folder, then create a markdown file in that folder with some specific frontmatter. Can I have GitJournal do that all for me?

Kind of - There is an option to always add specific frontmatter when creating a new file. It's however in the pro version.

I'm yet to implement proper templating support.

Could you please vote on the issue? https://github.com/GitJournal/GitJournal/issues/20