How to add comments to a static site using GitHub Pull Requests and Netlify Functions

• n3

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  n3 (by neagle)

As a developer, static sites are appealing for even more reasons: writing and manipulating content just involves working with files, which I can pull open in the IDE I use for my regular coding work. They can also be relatively evergreen: as the tech world puts out new CMSes and new frameworks at a pretty rapid clip, building a site from a collection of files can work the same way for years and years. My personal site is statically generated, via custom JavaScript code so that I only need to update it in response to changes in my own needs, but I use almost the same system for organizing source files that I first picked up from Jekyll, a ruby-powered static site generator that was the first tool of its kind I used.

• Newman

  241 6,718 7.5 JavaScript

  Newman is a command-line collection runner for Postman

  

I recommend getting this workflow working completely independently of your serverless function at the start. Debugging multiple, interleaved concerns can be frustrating and time-consuming: when you have the ability to manipulate and examine something independently, it's easy to understand and to fix issues that come up. Postman has been my go-to tool for a long time for working with APIs.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• profile

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GitHub has tucked the personal access tokens admin in a slightly hard-to-find location. From anywhere in GitHub, you can click on your profile image → Settings → Developer Settings → Personal Access Tokens.

• Gatsby

  356 55,016 9.3 JavaScript

  The best React-based framework with performance, scalability and security built in.

  

There are a ton of great static site generators out there. Gatsby is probably the most high-octane, and it's great for a production site (especially since its acquisition by Netlify), as it has had a ton of development put into its power features. (One of my favorite Gatsby evangelists is Queen Raae.) But if you're working on a site for yourself, why not give writing your own a try? You'll probably learn some things, and you'll have the pleasure of having something that works exactly the way you like it.

• apps

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• tokens

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GitHub has tucked the personal access tokens admin in a slightly hard-to-find location. From anywhere in GitHub, you can click on your profile image → Settings → Developer Settings → Personal Access Tokens.

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