ONonewaystreet·Dec 31, 2015
> we should be skeptical of React too, terrible for static HTML
It's easy when you use webpack and a static renderer:
https://github.com/markdalgleish/static-site-generator-webpa...
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markdalgleish / static-site-generator-webpack-plugin
static-site-generator-webpack-plugin
Minimal, unopinionated static site generator powered by webpack
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Minimal, unopinionated static site generator powered by webpack
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| Aug 3 | 2015-08-03 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-08-10 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Aug 10 | 2015-08-10 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-08-17 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 17 | 2015-08-17 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-08-24 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 24 | 2015-08-24 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-08-31 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 31 | 2015-08-31 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-09-07 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 7 | 2015-09-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-09-14 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 14 | 2015-09-14 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-09-21 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 21 | 2015-09-21 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-09-28 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 28 | 2015-09-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-10-05 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 5 | 2015-10-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-10-12 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 12 | 2015-10-12 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-10-19 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 19 | 2015-10-19 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-10-26 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 26 | 2015-10-26 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-11-02 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2 | 2015-11-02 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-11-09 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 9 | 2015-11-09 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-11-16 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 16 | 2015-11-16 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-11-23 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 23 | 2015-11-23 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-11-30 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 30 | 2015-11-30 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-12-07 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Dec 7 | 2015-12-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-12-14 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 14 | 2015-12-14 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-12-21 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 21 | 2015-12-21 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-12-28 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 28 | 2015-12-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-04 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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3 sourcesMinimal, unopinionated static site generator powered by webpack
2 points · Open discussionI am using static-site-generator-webpack-plugin [0] on a client project now and it has been fantastic. I have one json file full of all the data of the site and then a bunch of components that render it in various ways. I've got translations in several languages plus the components can use React-Intl to get text, dates, etc. in the right format for the locale.
The experience has been fantastic compared to other static site generators (very limited control over display of content) or CMSes (too indirect for what is basically simple logic, especially around internationalization).
It was a bit fiddly getting everything set up so that React, React Router, React Intl, and Static Site Generator all played nicely together. But after about a day of banging my head on that, it's just worked ever since and been a dream.
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vement: right now the build first runs the code through Babel and then runs that through WebPack. Problem is, if parts of the Babel build fail, there's no error reporting, and instead I get a WebPack-stage error about some file not being available. I then have to manually run the file through Babel to see that there's a simple syntax error.
[0] https://github.com/markdalgleish/static-site-generator-webpa...