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For those looking for a Wordpress alternative. I recently launched http://www.webhook.com http://www.webhook.com . It acts like a static site generator like Jek
by snide 12y ago
For those looking for a Wordpress alternative. I recently launched http://www.webhook.com http://www.webhook.com . It acts like a static site generator like Jekyll and deploys static websites, but it allows for a pretty CMS on the backend that your clients can still edit. There's a UI focused form-builder that removes the normal model layer.
We've been open sourcing the entire thing under an MIT license. The server layer is the last bit and will be available next week.
Specifically anyone coming from a Django / Twig background will probably love our template layer.
- dharma1 12y agothis is great, had a look at webhook recently and it looked pretty sweet. How much effort would be required to have it completely self-hosted, without Firebase?
- snide 12y agoWithout Firebase? Quite a bit. I can't say enough good things about them. And remember, the output is all static, so it's not like you'll be hitting expensive limits from Firebase. We only use them on the CMS site. So unless you plan on having 100 people in your CMS at once you'd be fine with their free plan. The self-host docs come out next week. It's working, we're just testing and documenting everything as best we can.
- vatotemking 12y agoHow do you handle search? I think that's one of my gripe with static websites.
- snide 12y agoIn the CMS itself it's handled by Elastic Search pretty easily. For the frontend, I used Swiftype's free version. It's what powers Webhook.com (itself is just Elastic Search as well, but adds some niceties like analytic). I wrote up a tutorial here if you're interested in search on static sites. http://www.webhook.com/blog/tutorial-add-search-to-your-static-site/ http://www.webhook.com/blog/tutorial-add-search-to-your-stat...