Nikola VS tinacms

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.

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).

I've been using Nikola and am happy with it: https://github.com/getnikola/nikola

Might be this static site generator: https://getnikola.com/

Found it by searching [nikola software].

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.

I also know that there is also Python-based Lektor [2], however I found Nikola more intriguing than this one.

[0] https://getnikola.com/

Check the GitHub Repo for the source code.

Not too bad! I have a blog in development. I just use MDX for my blog content so I can add components to my posts, but if I wanted something more I'd use tina.io which also supports MDX, $0. Then I can host everything on Vercel, price $0. I also added authentication and a database to provide likes and comments using Next Auth and Upstash, $0. I have an $9/yr .com domain.

This was an experiment to see if it was possible to run Node.js (Github) and Docker Hub), Next.js (Github and TinaCMS from Node.js' Docker container.

Sounds like a good use case for something like a headless CMS. Tina seems interesting https://tina.io/

If you're comfortable with Next.js, you could use TinaCMS. It saves all content to files (Markdown, JSON, and MDX). Repo image storage support coming soon (but currently requires 3rd-party solution like Imgx).

Tina is the spiritual successor to Forestry, and looks pretty good, very visual. Open source and Git-based: https://tina.io/

The problem was with using something like TinaCMS or Markdown is the content gets parsed as standard elements, for example

Author here.

Re: search. It's not that site search is impossible, or even particularly hard, with a JAMstack site. It's just that I didn't consider it MVP for my personal site. I know how it can be done, and I'll implement it when I have time.

Re: CMS. I know where you're coming from, I spent a good decade or so specialising in traditional CMSes / frameworks myself, mainly Drupal and Django. There are various answers to the CMS question for static sites - the ones that I'm most familiar with are https://forestry.io/ and https://tina.io/ (and I've heard no end of buzz about <https://www.sanity.io/>). Those solutions are solid, I wouldn't call them "bizarre suggestions and workarounds". And they're good enough for most needs, IMHO. But I haven't tried pitching them to clients yet.

For those of you who have development chops and want a better platform, we're seeing a lot of agencies build Wix-like platforms with TinaCMS (disclaimer, I'm on the team).

If needed, I use TinaCMS and then Firebase for the database.