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My first reaction was to think that someone is re-inventing the wheel again for not good reason, but as usual "it depends". If you are trying to have your blog
by dewey 3y ago
My first reaction was to think that someone is re-inventing the wheel again for not good reason, but as usual "it depends".
If you are trying to have your blog as your main website and not just one sub-category it makes sense to use a blogging framework (Hugo, Ghost, Wordpress etc.), but I realized that having a blog integrated in a product isn't so straight forward if you want to keep your existing footer, header, CSS and share it.
I tried to use Hugo to integrate a blog in my Rails app but it was a bigger amount of pain than just doing it quickly in your existing code base with all the tools and styles already available.
- politelemon 3y ago> if you want to keep your existing footer, header, CSS That's actually pretty simple, and is what CSS is meant to be helping with - there will be a pain of having to wrangle the framework's HTML to fit what you need, but it's doable, and a small price to pay for the benefits the tried-and-tested framework brings.
- dewey 3y agoYes, but in reality it's not that easy if you want to have a shared footer / header / navbar component. If you want to use for example Tailwind CSS classes in your blog you also need to integrate it with your build pipeline to add/remove unused classes from the final stylesheet.
- lelanthran 3y agoI have client side includes using a custom element, that I can add to any HTML page and get the shared footer, header, etc.
- hschne 3y agoI'm currently facing the same problem - adding a blog to a Rails app. I thought Sitepress looks interesting, as its supposed to integrate with Rails. Have you given that one a try? https://sitepress.cc/ https://sitepress.cc/
- dewey 3y agoI haven't seen that one yet but it looks good and kinda what I was looking for. Thanks for sharing! I expected there to be many solutions for this problem but wasn't able to find a simple one. In the end I just generated a simple "post" model and have some ugly admin interface that allows me to paste some markdown into a small box and publish it. Then I'm just using some gems for RSS feed / sitemap handling.
- nicbou 3y agoIf you natively work with Markdown, consider the static site generation approach. It also means that your content is also source-controlled. Basically, just convert your markdown to HTML, and dump that into your existing templates.
- KingOfCoders 3y agoI use Hugo to generate HTML without header and footer etc. and serve the HTML parts from my app.