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Soupault: A static website management tool

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Re: Soupault: A static website management tool

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Post by wonger_ »

I'm using soupault right now to make a simple company wiki (under a dozen pages). I like how it's HTML-first and easily customizable, compared to other static site generators that come with too many bells and whistles. Although now I have to make my own image compression script...

Also, fun fact: soupault is written in OCaml, which apparently has a really nice library for HTML manipulation: https://github.com/aantron/lambdasoup

Re: Soupault: A static website management tool

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Post by Brajeshwar »

Honestly, I could not get to a point of clarity on What does this exactly do. I went through the website's landing page and looks pretty rock solid. But this seems to be trying to do too many things in a pretty complex way for a small and simple output. I want to like this, and I think this can help me with some of my mundane chores and focus on the content but I just cannot quite grasp it.

Can someone, please, do a "This" is the typical problem we face with HTML in Static Site Generators and "this" does "something" to solve that?

Re: Soupault: A static website management tool

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Post by wonger_ »

Brajeshwar wrote: post #3

Honestly, I could not get to a point of clarity on What does this exactly do. I went through the website's landing page and looks pretty rock solid. But this seems to be trying to do too many things in a pretty complex way for a small and simple output. I want to like this, and I think this can help me with some of my mundane chores and focus on the content but I just cannot quite grasp it. Can someone, please, do a…

I agree that the advantages are not clear. Maybe this table of comparisons should go on the landing page: https://soupault.app/tips-and-tricks/comparison/

Most SSGs force a blog-oriented directory structure like assets/ static/ theme/ posts/ public/. But soupault only needs an input/ and output/.

Most SSGs convert markdown to HTML. But soupault is good at processing (or ignoring) any sort of source content, which is nice for excluding one-off pages, or parsing non-markdown, or using existing HTML content.

Re: Soupault: A static website management tool

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Post by WaitWaitWha »

This may sound counter intuitive, but I am befuddled with all these static site generators always CLI. Yet, I delight in static sites.

Why is are all static site generators (that I am aware of) are CLI? What prevent simplistic drag and drop GUI/WYSIWYG that generates those clean static files?

All the static generators I have tested are way over-complicated for the "general public", yet I think static sites are probably the best option for most sites.

Re: Soupault: A static website management tool

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Post by mikae1 »

WaitWaitWha wrote: post #6

This may sound counter intuitive, but I am befuddled with all these static site generators always CLI. Yet, I delight in static sites . Why is are all static site generators (that I am aware of) are CLI? What prevent simplistic drag and drop GUI/WYSIWYG that generates those clean static files? All the static generators I have tested are way over-complicated for the "general public", yet I think static sites are proba…

Try https://getpublii.com

Re: Soupault: A static website management tool

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Post by _xivi »

WaitWaitWha wrote: post #6

This may sound counter intuitive, but I am befuddled with all these static site generators always CLI. Yet, I delight in static sites . Why is are all static site generators (that I am aware of) are CLI? What prevent simplistic drag and drop GUI/WYSIWYG that generates those clean static files? All the static generators I have tested are way over-complicated for the "general public", yet I think static sites are proba…

> Why is are all static site generators (that I am aware of) are CLI? What prevent simplistic drag and drop GUI/WYSIWYG that generates those clean static files?

Check:

- Tina CMS: https://tina.io/

- Primo CMS: https://primocms.org/

More generally, try looking for `git-based cms` or `CMS+SSG`, you'll find a diverse set of solutions.

Anyway, you had it in reverse. Static generation is the easy part, while what you're looking for is a subset category of CMSs. So you should be looking under the CMS umbrella. You can also setup any generic Headless CMS to trigger generation for a static site. There's not much incentive to build a full fledged CMS, only to clip its wings and limit it to "static site only".

Re: Soupault: A static website management tool

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Post by Jaxkr »

WaitWaitWha wrote: post #6

This may sound counter intuitive, but I am befuddled with all these static site generators always CLI. Yet, I delight in static sites . Why is are all static site generators (that I am aware of) are CLI? What prevent simplistic drag and drop GUI/WYSIWYG that generates those clean static files? All the static generators I have tested are way over-complicated for the "general public", yet I think static sites are proba…

Anyone who wants a GUI for a static site generator would be better served by a CMS.

Static sites are really only loved in the developer community among people who think it’s crazy to run a whole backend to generate pages for unchanging blog posts.

The people who want a GUI do not think this is crazy and use WordPress or similar software.

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