Web development nowadays has become so complicated thanks to the creators of thousands of new ways to do the same thing. In the early days of web d...
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I've done this before too. I had an incredibly simple site that I wanted to quickly and easily modify from a config file, and some templates. A static-site generator intended for blogs or other content-heavy sites seemed heavy-handed, so I rolled my own SSG using a Makefile, a build script in node, some template files, and a config file in TOML.
Pretty easy, and much better than a more involved Hugo/Jekyll/whatever site.
Refs: site and repo.
I've just checked that. It's cool
Of course if you ask ChatGPT the opposite, it will give some good reasons: "React is a popular choice for static site generation (SSG) due to several key factors that leverage its component-based architecture and the growing ecosystem of tools around it." (It then listed 7 reasons I won't repeat here.)
Try this prompt: Why React is Not Suitable for Content Driven Sites
My point is, you can generally get ChatGPT to say what you want it to say when it comes to matters of opinion :) I have no doubt that it has plenty of negative things to say about using React in that scenario. I wasn't trying to suggest React is great. I just don't think argument by ChatGPT is particularly effective.
Well, to be honest that's actually my opinion, this is just lazy writing. I used chatGPT to generate that portion of the article
Try running a lighthouse report on your site. It can help you optimize performance. (Go to dev tools by pressing CTRL + SHIFT + I, this is available in Chromium-based browsers).
Thanks for the suggestion 😃
There's a list of projects that every developer has to create for themselves, back in the day one of those is a CMS with PHP, another is a game (or beginnings of an unfinished game engine 😅), and sometimes it's a static site generator.
The last time I made a static site generator, I used Jinja for the templates with
gettextfor generating translations.😎 Very cool that you used GTK for the file uploading dialog.
If the site were built for other people to edit/review, it might be worth storing all those Markdown files in Firebase Storage; larger sites with more content writers/editors end up using Contentful or some other headless CMS.
The dynamic ambient background is a cool effect; I've used Unsplash (manually) selecting a random or slightly relevant cover image for posts. There's a lot of directions you can go in when you're writing the static site generator!
Hey, appreciate it man. Since I don't write a lot that's why I didn't consider storing articles on Firestore. The posts are currently staying at my github. If they grow in number I'll definitely do it. Thanks for the suggestion 😃
Nice! I've seen a couple of different approaches to this problem lately, and they've all been pretty creative (in a good way). I'm particularly happy that this seems to be the trigger for more people to share their content! "Hey, I put all this work into a content system, I might as well start using it."
Thanks
Nice post, and your site looks great! I've tried this too, but I'm not as patient as you, and leaving the project alone for a while made me forget too much, it was more headache than it was worth. IMO the biggest value of doing this is what you learn.
My current site miko.ademagic.com is built on Astro and took me like 3 cli commands to set it live. Now i work on it slowly and continuously, it's great.
Very neat. :)
I left a comment on your site.
Thanks for sharing. This is inspiring!
Thank you for reading ☺️
Good read! Thanks for sharing your journey here Shazin
Thank you! I especially like the dynamic ambient background. It looks beautiful!
I am glad you liked it.
hello everyone! I'm new here👍
How are you
currently, we are going to build new coin marketplace similar pump.fun or base.fun.
If you have good experience with MERN Stack, I want to collaborate with you
Hey, let's connect. @srshazin/x
That's a really cool website! and an interesting journey to building your own SSG!
I am currently learning the MERN stack and building some fundamental applications. I am trying to get your project's tech-stack overview. Could you confirm if your tech stack was as follows :
If you feel comfortable, please do share the repo. Thanks! 😄
Hello, I am actually interested in sharing my repo but it's not well organized currently. I'll put a link when it's ready.
My tech stack was fairly simple
Thanks a lot for the detailed answer. 'Build tool' is something that I heard of, but never saw in implementation. That was insightful! Super cool!
This made me think of the process and I have a question for you then, why render page on the server with Python every time page loads, instead of building html file during the deployment and having static content on the server already (going to be faster), you are building the content locally anyways. I know the speed difference is not going to be noticeable for people, but just out of curiosity.
I also built a custom blog some time ago, but I used php. now it is much easier to build it since there are good open-source text editors out there, which was my problem back in the days.
I think you misunderstood the use of python here. I am doing exactly what you're suggesting. I am not using python on the server to generate page on the run time. I am using python to generate static HTML pages during deployment, I'm using BeautifulSoup to insert dynamic contents during build time. On the deployment I have only html css and JavaScript nothing else.
What's SSG role ?
I am quite not sure what you are asking about. Asking about what is SSG or role in my project?
Great article. Love it
I just enjoy it when people do something out of te box
Thanks. Appreciate it
It sounds like you're excited about your new project! But just to clarify, **Lulubox Pro APK is a mobile application related to gaming mods and isn't directly related to web development or static site generators. If you meant to reference something related to that in a fun way, you might say:
"Congrats on building your own static site generator! It's like creating your own Lulubox Pro APK but for the web—unlocking new levels of customization and control over your site. Keep pushing those updates!"
Just be careful with using or sharing APKs related to gaming mods, as they often come with legal or security concerns.
What if instead of uploading an image you would use any Figma design.
Let's connect Shazin and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
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@GiovanniOnX
Let's connect @srshazin that's mine
That's so useful 👌
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