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SurveyJS
Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.
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pages-gem
A simple Ruby Gem to bootstrap dependencies for setting up and maintaining a local Jekyll environment in sync with GitHub Pages
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InfluxDB
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.
It will generate an initial structure similar to this one: https://github.com/juliancwirko/harold-default-template-demo.
You'll find an example of such a project here: https://github.com/juliancwirko/testing-github-pages
Of course, this is just a demo. It is an initial template which you'll get using Harold - static site generator. If such a demo isn't enough, I built the whole julian.io using Harold.
Ok, and what about hosting? Is it also for free? Yes. Thanks to such services as GitHub Pages or Netlify, you can host your website for free. It is straightforward, and I'll show you how to do this in this article.
Every post can use a different blog layout. That's why you need to define one. Blog layouts should be placed in src/blog-layouts. These are standard Handlebars templates (.hbs files). If you don't know what Handlebars is, don't worry. It is a sort of enhanced HTML. But of course, if you want to modify the structure, you would need to learn a little bit about it. Check their docs: https://handlebarsjs.com/.