On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 3:59 AM Cédrick Béler <cdric...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi - a bit late to reply on this one, but I did try Jekyl years ago, it was >> ok but over time frustrating to use and difficult to make the pipeline >> understandable ... >> I looked at Hugo and a few others but ended up going with Metalsmith (a JS >> static generator). I liked the plugable pipeline model of it, but cursed the >> state of Js tools (a few years ago) . > It seems indeed that Jekyll can become frustrating. I’m using Hugo right now. > I didn’t know metalsmith... I tried Jekyll and Gatsby.js, and albeit the latest is a mix of SSR and SPA, I found some of their ideas in how to organize content to be valuable, but I can't stand the tooling or the feeling of facing an unneeded accidental complexity. >> I’ve been meaning for ages to reimplement it in Smalltalk with a nice oo >> composite pipeline model and an easy way to debug and visualise what is >> going when getting your template right. > I’ve tried to restrain myself not to redo it in smalltalk but that would be > great option. I don’t know the required effort though but I’ll be glad to be > part of such project. I spent the last weekend giving a try to that Gatbsy thing (nuxt.js and vuepress are in the backlog too), and at 10PM on sunday I decided to start coding something in Smalltalk, because it just feels better to me. I don't know how harder would it be, but that's a tool we currently lack, the static-site generator. And we have support for different templating, rendering canvas, and whatnot. >> Combine this with the new headless image and it should easily plug into >> netlify . > Plus to netlify but also class export to servers. I thing Git(hubs) Pages are > a nice option. In any cas, one nice pattern is to use git to store pages > versions, and then you can replay on Pages / or on your own server / or on > netlify. When I think about netlify I don't think about an app (as in, an executable) but as a simple static site, but if it possible to deploy an app that is distributed and served by their CDN, then better! > I also wonder what would be possible with mini-image like Erik did. I need to see more! I don't know how independent a client image can be, how much you can "pre-deploy" without needed to rehydrate the browser with server changes, etc. It's promising. Regards!
