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I think Publii[0] is the modern equivalent as it also runs on desktop and provides a blog-ish CMS with its own editor. I used it to make a small devlog[1] some time ago (on which i only wrote a single article, proving once and for all that the reason i do not blog more isn't because of the blog tech but because i'm too lazy to and i'd rather be writing endless posts in messageboards :-P). I do prefer the CityDesk style though[2], even if Publii is technically more powerful.
[0] https://getpublii.com/
[1] http://runtimeterror.com/devlog/
[2] http://runtimeterror.com/pages/badsector/nyan/gimme/cdsite/
The complexity of of static site generator isn't always needed or useful.
If you just want a simple site with a handful of posts a year then manually making .html files with an WYSIWYG editor or just copying old HTML templates from site likes "alistapart" is a legitimate, simple option. Installing nginx from your system repos is safe and easy too but if you don't want to self host then https://neocities.org/ is decent.
You can use tools like staticgen [1] with any CMS that you want.
[1] https://github.com/tj/staticgen
I love static site generators and I really wish more sites were built with them. There are likely millions of websites that have no login functionality or other functionality that specifically requires a back-end, but use a CMS anyway. Usually a CMS is slower for the users on the site, more expensive for the company running it, less secure, less stable, and more maintenance than a statically generated site.
I do think there's still plenty of room for improvement for static site generators though. Does anyone have any recommendations for an SSG with easy support for multi-lingual websites? Ideally, I'd be able to translate the text and provide alternative images, videos, and links without having to change the HTML structure of a given page for each language. Technically, this can be done easily with JavaScript by using a plugin like jQuery Localize [1], but that has two major downsides: (1) all other languages except the default breaks if JavaScript is disabled and (2) users won't know that the site supports their language from search engine results (the snippet will be in the default language.) So it'd be great if I could write the pseudo HTML of a page once, but generate multiple HTML files for each different language (placed into their respective directory, e.g. en/, es/, fr/ etc.)
[1] https://github.com/coderifous/jquery-localize
I would recommend poking around with 11ty,[0] which I find to be significantly simpler than Hugo.
The Go templating of Hugo is extremely confusing for most non-Go people. After using it for years I still constantly look up how to do simple conditionals.
11ty is a very competent, "good enough" generator. We used it to build this site[1] for CERN back in 2019 from scratch over the course of a few days.
[0]: https://www.11ty.dev/
[1]: https://worldwideweb.cern.ch/
Supposedly, Zola[0] was built in response to the deficiencies of Go templating. Having dipped my toe into the Go pool, I am tempted to agree.
[0] https://www.getzola.org/
https://github.com/etheralpha/clientdiversity-org/blob/main/...
Pretty basic stuff but when I checked out Hugo I was having the hardest time trying to figure out how to do it.
The Missing Semester of CS education by MIT ( https://missing.csail.mit.edu/ ) has a lot of great materials and videos to get started with basics of command line, shell, and git.
It has been discussed previously on HN ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22226380 )
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.
Lektor might be worth a look: https://www.getlektor.com/
After creating a site you start a local server by executing "lektor run" in the local folder, then preview the site in your webbrowser. There you get a edit-button whivh opens a backend with which you can edit the website. From that backend you can hit an upload button which allows you to push the static site directly to a remote (e.g. via scp)
You can do something a little like this with Nuxt and Nuxt Content:
https://content.nuxtjs.org/
On the surface it seems like a pretty roundabout way to work, but the static generation side of things works well. Not quickly (well, not Hugo-quickly).
Allow me to share my own SSG, and let me now if the documentation is clear, please :) https://github.com/imdario/zas
There are some issues to iron, but it's functional.
This.
I was tired of having to learn how each SSG worked so I ended up writing my very-specific-for-my-needs one in an afternoon (and polishing in a few days more)[0]
Surprisingly, my SSG is starting to look like those SSG I didn't want to use. It's the natural evolution or I'm being biased after years of reading SSG docs? :-)
[0] https://github.com/luismede/clarin
"allows" as in "you can hack it to support that use case" [1].
Moreover, Nextjs's devs are increasingly ignoring that use case to the point where it is unclear if you'll hit a roadblock where you can't update anymore because the required amount of hacking is just too much to continue using it like that.
https://github.com/vercel/next.js/issues/5054
Yes, Go templating is quite hard. There was a feature request[1] to implement the Django/Jinja2-like Pongo2 template engine[2], but got rejected because it would have been a too big change.
[1]: https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/1359
[2]: https://github.com/flosch/pongo2
Yes, Go templating is quite hard. There was a feature request[1] to implement the Django/Jinja2-like Pongo2 template engine[2], but got rejected because it would have been a too big change.
[1]: https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/1359
[2]: https://github.com/flosch/pongo2
You don't need to do that, just put this config setting on the page
https://github.com/city41/mattgreer.dev/blob/main/pages/inde...
I worked with middleman[0] before and it was much easier to setup for these kind of sites. It might not be as fast as Hugo but who cares if you change a page every other month.
[0] https://middlemanapp.com/