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> Even with SSG set up, having to be on the computer to create a draft, or make a quick correction, is really a bother. I think you might be able to solve this
by NateEag 4y ago
> Even with SSG set up, having to be on the computer to create a draft, or make a quick correction, is really a bother.
I think you might be able to solve this with Syncthing and a watch process on your syncthing server. Commit and render on each change, and optionally sync if the rendered site is different from the previous version.
...granted, that's a really tech-nerd setup.
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y agoHow is running syncthing better than git or the site generator?
- NateEag 4y agoSorry, I was really vague there. If you run syncthing on your mobile device, you could make edits to a local copy of your plain-text content, and have those edits auto-committed/rendered/synced when they hit a computer housing the actual git repo. I personally despise typing on my smartphone because I'm so much slower on it and I'm much more error-prone this way, but I use something like this for managing my personal todo.txt file and it works pretty well.
- Gigachad 4y agoAt that point you may as well use a real cms.
- NateEag 4y agoI dunno. I have basically this working with my todo.txt file between my laptop and phone, and it's incredibly low-maintenance. Most CMSes mean running a complex app, a full DB engine, and having to stay on top of security updates for all that. Heaven help you if you run a CMS with a bunch of third-party extensions. For my static sites I have SSH and nginx. Nothing else needed. Static isn't always the answer, but where it does fit it's hard to beat for simplicity and efficiency.
- benoliver999 4y agoThat's what stuff like Netlify does. You just set up a git hook to build the site when you push, and it all happens automatically.