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Publish – A static site generator for Swift developers

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Post by _quhg » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 9:18 PM UTC

Publish – A static site generator for Swift developers
github.com

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#2

Post by dhsysusbsjsi » Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 12:25 AM UTC

John Sundell is awesome. Other stuff he’s done:

Plot: Write type safe HTML/RSS/XML in Swift https://github.com/JohnSundell/Plot

Ink: Converts markdown to HTML https://github.com/JohnSundell/Ink

Swift by Sundell blog https://www.swiftbysundell.com/

Podcast https://www.swiftbysundell.com/podcast

I really love these lightweight, JavaScript free websites he’s helping create in Swift. It’s such a better experience loading and reading than other blogs - the inlined sponsor/ads even look nice and don’t feel overwhelming or annoying (I usually read them!).

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#3

Post by wiggler00m » Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 12:57 AM UTC

Like this idea in theory.

The author's site (built with Publish) seems slow to me. Cause unknown. Would like to see more examples.

https://swiftbysundell.com/

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#4

Post by kaycebasques » Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 1:15 AM UTC

wiggler00m wrote: post #3

Like this idea in theory. The author's site (built with Publish) seems slow to me. Cause unknown. Would like to see more examples. https://swiftbysundell.com/

Lighthouse gives it a 99 and the footer says that the site is “100% JavaScript free”. Did you mean runtime performance?

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Post by coke12 » Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 1:57 AM UTC

wiggler00m wrote: post #3

Like this idea in theory. The author's site (built with Publish) seems slow to me. Cause unknown. Would like to see more examples. https://swiftbysundell.com/

The site is being served directly by CloudFlare's CDN, hard to make it much faster than that.

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Post by jaunkst » Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 2:47 AM UTC

wiggler00m wrote: post #3

Like this idea in theory. The author's site (built with Publish) seems slow to me. Cause unknown. Would like to see more examples. https://swiftbysundell.com/

It's fast. It's static. CDN as mentioned. Nothing impressive here though. This wheel has been done.

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#7

Post by carapace » Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 5:08 AM UTC

What's a good data type for text with hyperlinks?

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#8

Post by layoutIfNeeded » Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 6:44 AM UTC

wiggler00m wrote: post #3

Like this idea in theory. The author's site (built with Publish) seems slow to me. Cause unknown. Would like to see more examples. https://swiftbysundell.com/

Actually it’s quite fast for me compared to “modern” sites.

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Post by layoutIfNeeded » Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 6:45 AM UTC

carapace wrote: post #7

What's a good data type for text with hyperlinks?

A tree?

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Post by paulddraper » Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 6:58 AM UTC

wiggler00m wrote: post #3

Like this idea in theory. The author's site (built with Publish) seems slow to me. Cause unknown. Would like to see more examples. https://swiftbysundell.com/

It's very fast for me. (~200ms from request start to first contentful paint)