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By that same token, we'd consider Wordpress overkill for a blog too, right? Well, a lot of the people using static site generators now came from Wordpress. Mos
by mhd 15y ago
By that same token, we'd consider Wordpress overkill for a blog too, right?
Well, a lot of the people using static site generators now came from Wordpress. Mostly because they fulfilled all the "requirements": Able to handle markup/scripting/deployment, no big need for all kinds of widgets and plugins, and the possibility of being subjected to overload (e.g. by posting here…).
One major feature of Wordpress and similar platforms is the editing/admin section, of course. Not everyone wants/can do everything with git. So I wasn't saying that there's no need for something like this at all…
Still, whether this is any worse than wordpress depends on the architecture, of course. Loading everything in client-side JavaScript doesn't need to be less efficient then generating it server-side. Good caching is possible, too.
- bmelton 15y agoIn theory, you could build a site that functions entirely with just HTML and client-side Javascript. I've done it before and, so long as you can expose a directory listing on wherever you keep your 'blog posts', you can just consume it with JS, perhaps transform Markdown into HTML (or just save as HTML). You won't get an editing/admin section though, naturally, as you won't be able to save a file to the server from client-side JS. Something like this or Node bridges that gap. Have you seen http://www.spintoapp.com/ http://www.spintoapp.com/? It just launched here the other day, and might be exactly what you're looking for. (Jekyll as a Service, basically)