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Show HN: HipstaDeploy – Generate and deploy static websites on CloudFront

20 points by proudlygeek 12y ago

steadicat 12y ago
If anyone is interested in a Node.js alternative, it’s pretty straightforward to use Gulp (http://gulpjs.com/ http://gulpjs.com/) for this. Take a look at the deploy task for my personal web site for an example: https://github.com/steadicat/attardi.org/blob/master/gulpfile.js#L78 https://github.com/steadicat/attardi.org/blob/master/gulpfil...
- e12e 12y ago
  But that assumes the files are available? Eg: it doesn't allow you to deploy a small mediawiki instance as a static site? (or any number of other smart/silly/useful/crazy uses for wget mirroring to disk, then copying)?
oddevan 12y ago
THANK YOU! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! Currently I'm using a local Wordpress install and a static site plugin and I'm getting kinda fed up with the gotchas. (Detail and links at http://www.oddevan.com/about http://www.oddevan.com/about ) If this does what you say it does, not only can I automate the deploy process, I can move over to Ghost (which I'm already using for its superior Markdown editor).
proudlygeek 12y ago
Author here: Happy it can be useful to others :) Right now i've only tested it with a local Ghost installation but theorically it should work with every blogging platform since it uses wget to fetch pages. Since it's basically a very silly and dumb shell script i didn't want to use something platform specific such as grunt / gulp / rake / whatever. Feel free to give me your feedback about it (Bugs, Features, etc.)
- oddevan 12y ago
  Do you have a link to a live demo?
  - proudlygeek 12y ago
    Yep, sure: http://d1ggong7924xq2.cloudfront.net/ http://d1ggong7924xq2.cloudfront.net/
    - e12e 12y ago
      Looks like the combination of histadeploy and ghost have garbled the about/cv/... links? I'm guessing ghost is set up to use some javascript shenanigans for display? (Or perhaps those sections are empty by default...). Anyway, nice little script, made me smile :-)
      - proudlygeek 12y ago
        Thank you, glad to hear that :) The CV / About / ... Links are actually just empty anchors...the example online is my WIP new blog.

20 points by proudlygeek 12y ago

If anyone is interested in a Node.js alternative, it’s pretty straightforward to use Gulp (http://gulpjs.com/ http://gulpjs.com/) for this. Take a look at the deploy task for my personal web site for an example: https://github.com/steadicat/attardi.org/blob/master/gulpfile.js#L78 https://github.com/steadicat/attardi.org/blob/master/gulpfil...

e12e 12y ago
But that assumes the files are available? Eg: it doesn't allow you to deploy a small mediawiki instance as a static site? (or any number of other smart/silly/useful/crazy uses for wget mirroring to disk, then copying)?

oddevan 12y ago

THANK YOU! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! Currently I'm using a local Wordpress install and a static site plugin and I'm getting kinda fed up with the gotchas. (Detail and links at http://www.oddevan.com/about http://www.oddevan.com/about ) If this does what you say it does, not only can I automate the deploy process, I can move over to Ghost (which I'm already using for its superior Markdown editor).

proudlygeek 12y ago

Author here: Happy it can be useful to others :) Right now i've only tested it with a local Ghost installation but theorically it should work with every blogging platform since it uses wget to fetch pages. Since it's basically a very silly and dumb shell script i didn't want to use something platform specific such as grunt / gulp / rake / whatever. Feel free to give me your feedback about it (Bugs, Features, etc.)

oddevan 12y ago
Do you have a link to a live demo?
- proudlygeek 12y ago
  Yep, sure: http://d1ggong7924xq2.cloudfront.net/ http://d1ggong7924xq2.cloudfront.net/
  - e12e 12y ago
    Looks like the combination of histadeploy and ghost have garbled the about/cv/... links? I'm guessing ghost is set up to use some javascript shenanigans for display? (Or perhaps those sections are empty by default...). Anyway, nice little script, made me smile :-)
    - proudlygeek 12y ago
      Thank you, glad to hear that :) The CV / About / ... Links are actually just empty anchors...the example online is my WIP new blog.