Maybe you should start from that?

It would be great.

Regards

���On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 3:59 AM C��drick B��ler <cdrick65@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi - a bit late to reply on this one, but I did try Jekyl years ago, it was ok but over time frustrating to use and difficult to make the pipeline understandable ...

I looked at Hugo and a few others but ended up going with Metalsmith (a JS static generator). I liked the plugable pipeline model of it, but cursed the state of Js tools (a few years ago) .

It seems indeed that Jekyll can become frustrating. I���m using Hugo right now. I didn���t know metalsmith...

I tried Jekyll and Gatsby.js, and albeit the latest is a mix of SSR
and SPA, I found some of their ideas in how to organize content to be
valuable, but I can't stand the tooling or the feeling of facing an
unneeded accidental complexity.

I���ve been meaning for ages to reimplement it in Smalltalk with a nice oo composite pipeline model and an easy way to debug and visualise what is going when getting your template right.

I���ve tried to restrain myself not to redo it in smalltalk but that would be great option. I don���t know the required effort though but I���ll be glad to be part of such project.

I spent the last weekend giving a try to that Gatbsy thing (nuxt.js
and vuepress are in the backlog too), and at 10PM on sunday I decided
to start coding something in Smalltalk, because it just feels better
to me.

I don't know how harder would it be, but that's a tool we currently
lack, the static-site generator. And we have support for different
templating, rendering canvas, and whatnot.

Combine this with the new headless image and it should easily plug into netlify .

Plus to netlify but also class export to servers. I thing Git(hubs) Pages are a nice option. In any cas, one nice pattern is to use git to store pages versions, and then you can replay on Pages / or on your own server / or on netlify.

When I think about netlify I don't think about an app (as in, an
executable) but as a simple static site, but if it possible to deploy
an app that is distributed and served by their CDN, then better!

I also wonder what would be possible with mini-image like Erik did.

I need to see more!
I don't know how independent a client image can be, how much you can
"pre-deploy" without needed to rehydrate the browser with server
changes, etc.
It's promising.

Regards!