sitepress
neocities
sitepress | neocities | |
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11 | 287 | |
245 | 1,289 | |
0.8% | 2.4% | |
7.4 | 9.4 | |
6 months ago | 3 days ago | |
Ruby | JavaScript | |
MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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sitepress
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No CMS? Writing Our Blog in React
I'm currently facing the same problem - adding a blog to a Rails app.
I thought Sitepress looks interesting, as its supposed to integrate with Rails. Have you given that one a try?
https://sitepress.cc/
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The theory versus the practice of “static websites”
I’ve been down this path enough times that I built https://sitepress.cc/, which lets you embed content in a rails app with features that are present in Jekyll, Middleman, etc. like Frontmatter, site hierarchy traversal, etc. It keeps content as files in the app/content directory, but when it’s time to pull data in from the Rails app for SEO, it’s all right there in the Rails app. There’s no “Headless CMS” crap to jump through.
For me, this is another way of keeping everything in a monolith, and which requires a lot less context switching. If I’m building a feature and I want to create marketing or support content for it, it’s all right there in the same repo. I just create the markdown files I need, commit them to the repo, and I’m don.
The thought of switching between a static content site or something like Webflow just seems silly. I think they only makes sense for huge teams.
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Rails with Middleman for static content?
In case you want something like Middleman (frontmatter, static compilation, ...), but embedable in your Rails app, Sitepress is really cool solution (you can even run it without Rails!): https://sitepress.cc
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Ask HN: Who's using Ruby web development without Ruby on Rails (RoR)?
I went the opposite direction and built a static site generator on top of Rails: https://sitepress.cc/
Turns out, Rails is a really good web framework! I tried building Sitepress on something “light weight”, Tilt and Rack, and it was a pain. I found myself constantly solving the same problems that were already solved in Rails. At some point it dawned on me that I could just build on top of a few parts of Rails, so I did. I wrote about it at https://fly.io/ruby-dispatch/single-file-rails-app/
I’m glad I did! Now I can plug all of the Rails template handlers, view components, and other Rails plugins into it and ride off that entire communities docs.
If you find yourself thinking, “rails is too heavy”, consider shedding the parts of Rails that you don’t need. Then as your application grows in complexity and you find yourself needing more parts of Rails, bring it back in.
- [student help] Using Rails as front end. Is it possible?
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Single File Rails Apps
As I was building Sitepress (a site generator like Middleman, Jekyll, & Bridgetown), I stumbled into the idea that a Rails application can exist in a single file and wrote about it at https://fly.io/ruby-dispatch/single-file-rails-app/.
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Show HN: I made a CMS that uses Git to store your data
Agreed. I built https://sitepress.cc/ that uses git + files to manage content in Rails, but it needs an editor.
I’m not sure if the right thing to do is build a web editor or smooth out git workflows so that non-technical people can open content files with desktop software to make changes to the content.
- Sitepress: Build content websites for static site or Rails applications
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State of the Web: Static Site Generators
I created https://sitepress.cc/ because you can have both! It can run a dynamic content site from a Rails app or it can compile out pages that can be deployed to any static website host.
It doesn’t have a front end for authoring pages, styles, etc, but that could be built on top of this library.
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RIP Jekyll (The Genesis of the Jamstack)
I was using Middleman for a while, but then grew tired of all the dependencies I had to always keep up-to-date. I did the completely illogical thing and built my own static site generator, https://sitepress.cc/
A few years later and I ended up deleting most of it and replacing the internals with Rails. Now Sitepress is just a tiny rails application sitting on top of a bunch of files. Most of the maintenance and dependencies are handled by major Rails lib maintainers.
When you deploy it, you can compile it into static files and deploy as you’d expect, but you can also deploy it as a rails or rack app … or even embed it into an existing rails app.
When Rails 7.0 gets released I’ll drop JS importmaps into the default install for free and have my dream static site generator that doesn’t have a huge asset compilation step.
neocities
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The woman who coined the expression 'Surfing the Internet'
You may really enjoy Neocities [0] it is full if websites that you explore.
[0] https://neocities.org/
- Neocities
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Top 20 Free Static Web Hosting Services in 2024 ⚡️
Thriving creative community. Neocities
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Let's make the indie web easier
I'm surprised no-one's mentioned neocities (https://neocities.org/). It's open source (https://github.com/neocities).
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Neocities – Developers API
Compare the copy on the landing pages and it’s pretty obvious
https://pages.cloudflare.com/
https://neocities.org/
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Is it just me, or is the Internet getting really boring?
If you are curious to find more interesting stuff, start here: – https://mojeek.com/ search engine with own index, totally different results - https://wiby.me/ another search engine, but "old school" kind of web sites. It does not mean that site cannot be new, but it just looks and feels like old school web pages. Funny way is use that "surprise me..." link there to find something - https://peelopaalu.neocities.org/ loooooots of interesting and random strange links to dig deeper on internet than just the sugar coated google-friendly web (aka. ad-friendly commercial web) - https://neocities.org/ the web page where is lots of sites hosted as somebody else already shared this as well there on comments - https://koshka.love/links.html Koshka's web page and its links to find more random stuff. There are interesting opinion texts on his site as well.
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The Small Website Discoverability Crisis
Neocities has taken steps to try to improve small personal web site discoverability, which ends up being like a platform for people making web sites with a hybrid social component https://neocities.org
I like the idea of calling this the small web, I usually go with something like "personal web site" or "home pages" but it's never quite stuck for me. I hope they've added Neocities to the Kagi small web search because there's some pretty incredible sites available for that: https://neocities.org/browse
- Ask HN: What's your go-to webhost in 2023 for simple websites?
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Drag and drop instant web hosting
Similar to neocities, but novel choice to allow the user to upload file(s) as part of the sign up process.
https://neocities.org
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Website Building/Blogging Tool: Static Ultra (Showoff Saturday)
If you'd like some free web space to try it out, I highly recommend Neocities, which provides static reliable website hosting (should say I don't work for them they just happen to be my web host and have been very good).
What are some alternatives?
react-static - ⚛️ 🚀 A progressive static site generator for React.
barinsta - Open-source alternative Instagram client on Android. More maintainers needed!
poor-richard - Static site for Spotlight PA
pages-gem - A simple Ruby Gem to bootstrap dependencies for setting up and maintaining a local Jekyll environment in sync with GitHub Pages
Bridgetown - A next-generation progressive site generator & fullstack framework, powered by Ruby
blissue - A blog based on github issues
Nikola - A static website and blog generator
projectm - projectM - Cross-platform Music Visualization Library. Open-source and Milkdrop-compatible.
firecms - Awesome Firebase/Firestore-based CMS. The missing admin panel for your Firebase project!
private-network-access
gutenberg - A fast static site generator in a single binary with everything built-in. https://www.getzola.org
Libation - Libation: Liberate your Library