staticman VS go-unsplash

Staticman - Staticman is a Node.js application that receives user-generated content and uploads it as data files to a GitHub and/or GitLab repository, using Pull Requests.

Staticman

Another possible solution to add dynamic content to a GitHub website is to use staticman. On the opposite of the previous solutions using external databases, staticman creates files in your repository, updating your website statically. It is free and open-source but not as straightforward to implement as disqus. The nice thing is that it will store all your comments in your git repository, so there is no risk of losing them.

This article is part of a series showing you how to quickly and freely build and host your own Jekyll blog on GitHub Pages. This series will also cover more advanced topics like adding a comment system directly in our code using Staticman and adding privacy-friendly but still free analytics using Umami.

We will also cover more advanced topics like adding a comment system directly in our code using Staticman and integrating free privacy-friendly analytics using Umami.

I'm late to the game, but I'm surprised that no one has mentioned StaticMan yet:

https://github.com/eduardoboucas/staticman

Just uses Git(Hub) to triage and approve comments for your static sites, like Jekyll.

Alternatives from my notes (never used them IRL):

* https://github.com/eduardoboucas/staticman

* https://github.com/schn4ck/schnack

From the code, we managed to generate a rectangular card with a play button (images sourced from Unsplash). Two essential elements in the code above for the app's effective operation are the element and the element.

In the root of your project, create a new folder called images and add some images. You can use the images from the example project on GitHub or you can find license free images on unsplash.

Reference links: Unsplash, Pexels, Burst, The Stocks, Pixabay

Images are sourced from Unsplash.

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Since I wanted to have thumbnails for each post (the file it uses is defined by the thumbnail field in the front matter), I decided to add some code that copies the files from our posts folder to the assets folder in Angular. This way, we can easily reference them in our Angular code. However, some of the image files I would download from Unsplash.com (fantastic public domain images btw) were huge and would take a few seconds to load in the browser. So, I delegated this task to gulp, where the files would first be piped to imagemin and then copied to the assets folder. This optimized the images for faster load times. My gulpfile.mjs looks like this:

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