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2.3 | 8.2 | |
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Publish
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Why You Should Write Your Own Static Site Generator
For Swift there’s https://github.com/JohnSundell/Publish which is a framework to create a static site generator. It’s really good.
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How to turn a folder of markdown docs into a structured docs section in an app?
First thing I thought of was John Sundell's Publish, then make all the articles as posts. A bit of HTML work and have it list it as a sidebar with an order metadata of the markdown. You could then use the LocalWebsitePublishPlugin to make it all accessible offline too - though I haven't tested it so I dont know if it works or not. There are not a lot, but some plugins available too that are helpful, and it's nice to be inside of the same language ecosystem.
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Is it possible to code a website using Swift?
There is a SSG that uses Swift: https://github.com/JohnSundell/Publish
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Ask HN: Share Your Personal Site
I made https://will.institute/ as a place to post stuff after bailing on most social media, the existing content was migrated over from my old Instagram account.
Static site built in Swift with Publish: https://github.com/JohnSundell/Publish
Since I got out of the habit of posting anything on Instagram for a couple years I haven’t really gotten back into it for my own site, but one of these days I’ll put some new pictures up!
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Swift.org Website is Now Open Source
The best static site generator in Swift is Publish, but the Swift.org website is much older than that project.
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I created a blog template that uses Github as the CMS, so your blog can be version controlled and written with the same workflow as you write your code. What do you think?
Currently working on something similar, but in Swift, with Publish. Still a long way off since my css skills leave a lot to be desired, lol
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Just a simple coding question
If a static website works for you, you can use Publish library by John Sundell.
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Apple’s use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 15
"There are dozens of us" but seriously, there is some interest from users but most projects done by companies have been abandoned, SwiftUI feels almost like a language divergence, which is frustrating. I'll list what I know about but it's by no means comprehensive.
The good news is that server side on Linux is still working well, Vapor 4 is solid, growing and looks like it has a bright future and Perfect is still going too, though Perfect seems disjointed from the main community. IBM's Kitura and involvement with Swift is over though. Server side seems like it's best future right now, since it's more performant than Javascript and uses less cycles, which can have a lot of cost benefits.
Static site generation looks good too, Publish by John Sundell being the most famous (https://github.com/JohnSundell/Publish) but a lot of others have started springing up lately.
"Swift for Tensorflow" by Google has been shut down. Though that was mostly Google giving advice on how to evolve Swift to work better for ML. It's a shame too, since it felt like Fast.Ai was adopting it and starting to teach it at one point, so the shutdown felt a bit premature, but this is Google after all, shutting things down is what they do.
Swift 5.0+ seems to have stabilized the language quite a bit too(ABI Stability and other things), which is a good thing, as hopefully the tutorials/docs from now on should remain more consistent. The built in package manager "Swift Package Manager" seems to be working better too, though there are still a lot of complaints/missing features, but on the whole I like it.
Swift on Linux seems to be officially supported by more flavors of Linux than it used to be. Meanwhile Swift on Windows works right now but I wouldn't use it in production yet, it throws errors that are the sort that if you ask anyone they will answer "that's normal, ignore that". Some have even gotten modern Swift to run on older MacOS's leveraging LLVM.
Swift WASM seems to have had a big update with Swift 5.4 https://forums.swift.org/t/swiftwasm-5-4-0-has-been-released... though I've not yet tried it having given up on Swift WASM about a year ago.
Youtuber Stega's Gate(https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBXFkK2B4w9856wBJfCGufg) is building a cross platform game engine in swift.
IntelliJ has a decent alternative to Xcode now too, using Clion with an app made by them(though it's still not as integrated as Xcode, nothing would be).
Getting it to run on android is technically possible, but the workaround it too much, but that's mostly on Google actually, since the support for writing things in C for Android is so depreciated it's a joke.
The Docs are still terrible though, have been to my knowledge since 3.0 became outdated. That said the official books are alright and there are tutorial communities that are pretty good too, but it's shameful that the docs should be that useless.
So yeah, Swift is nearly viable for non Mac things, but there aren't much for libraries outside of backend. Some are tinkering and making cool stuff, but at times it's difficult when even the non app related programming tutorials for those are like "let's do it on MacOS using Xcode".All of that said, it's my favorite language, I want it to have a community similar to Rust's but I don't think Apple supports it the right way for that happen, they seem ok with it staying inside their ecosystem, like they are ok if the community does stuff outside of it, but they aren't helping it or encouraging it, is the general feeling. Ironically I was recommended to Swift initially because of the community that it had at the time, the caveat being "if you want to make apps for Apple's ecosystem", which isn't terrible, but it's not what I want. I'll probably give up on it if it doesn't change in the next year or so and go all in on Rust is likely what will happen, but again it's a shame.
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Static site generators to watch in 2021
For any Swift devs needing to put together a webpage, check out Publish: https://github.com/JohnSundell/Publish
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How can you possibly call flutter web stable?
My website is built with a Swift static site generator (that I have forked to accommodate my needs), and otherwise uses basic HTML + CSS and a bit of vanilla JS. Works great.
Nikola
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5 Best Static Site Generators in Python
Nikola is a feature-rich static site generator that supports a variety of formats for content creation, including reStructuredText, Markdown, and Jupyter Notebooks. It offers a flexible architecture, allowing you to use different template engines and supports plugins for extending functionality. Nikola is suitable for both simple blogs and complex websites.
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Trying to work around a Jekyll site-building tutorial without using Jekyll
You can - you'd basically just create a python script that parses your HTML/CSS files and replaces strings with values from your YAML. However I wouldn't recommend that unless you're just using this as an opportunity to learn Python. If you want to standup a real site and you want to use python, I'd recommend a Python static site generator like Pelican or Nikola.
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I'm building a personal website. Should I bother doing it in Python or just use a template?
I tend to prefer static site generators for this kind of use case. I use Nikola, which is written in and based on Python. You should be able to pick whatever html5up template you like and turn it into a Nikola template, too.
- Building a personal blog using Django
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Ask HN: How to build a light weight personal blog?
I switched to Nikola recently: https://getnikola.com/
Reads every kind of plaintext format, but will also just publish a Jupyter notebook which means you can do drag and drop image and graph inlining which makes everything so much simpler (and thus makes me more likely to keep it up).
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What is the best Python static site generator?
I've been using Nikola and am happy with it: https://github.com/getnikola/nikola
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Ask HN: Great tools for solo SaaS founders?
Might be this static site generator: https://getnikola.com/
Found it by searching [nikola software].
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Emacs markdown export
I know you say you're comfortable with your workflow, but just wanted to throw out that if you're not dependent on Jekyll, and are simply looking for the best way to create a static site/blog from org-mode files, you could consider Nikola as an alternative. It has an excellent org-mode plugin which would likely solve your complication.
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Static site generators to watch in 2021
I also know that there is also Python-based Lektor [2], however I found Nikola more intriguing than this one.
What are some alternatives?
Pelican - Static site generator that supports Markdown and reST syntax. Powered by Python.
Lektor - The lektor static file content management system
Hugo - The world’s fastest framework for building websites.
Jekyll - :globe_with_meridians: Jekyll is a blog-aware static site generator in Ruby
Hyde - A Python Static Website Generator
Cactus - Static site generator for designers. Uses Python and Django templates.
Hexo - A fast, simple & powerful blog framework, powered by Node.js.
gutenberg - A fast static site generator in a single binary with everything built-in. https://www.getzola.org
makesite - Simple, lightweight, and magic-free static site/blog generator for Python coders
Tinkerer - Python blogging engine
tinacms - A fully open-source headless CMS that supports Markdown and Visual Editing
Minimal Static Blog Generator in Python - Simple Python script to convert Markdown posts to a static blog. Mainly for learning. 2kb site, top Lighthouse scores.