tj/staticgen

Static website generator that lets you use HTTP servers and frameworks you already know

staticgen's Issues

Utilize HTTP caching for partial rebuilds

HTTP caching features could be used to test the freshness, instead of blowing away the entire build each time.

Improve performance

It's not bad as-is, but I haven't put any effort into this yet.

Not able to install

I'm on ChromeOS, I follow the install instructions:

$ curl -sf https://gobinaries.com/tj/staticgen/cmd/staticgen | sh

\x1b[38;5;61m  ==>\x1b[0;00m Downloading github.com/tj/staticgen/cmd/staticgen@master
\x1b[38;5;61m  ==>\x1b[0;00m Resolved version master to v1.0.1
\x1b[38;5;61m  ==>\x1b[0;00m Downloading binary for linux amd64
\x1b[38;5;61m  ==>\x1b[0;00m Installing staticgen to /usr/local/bin
install: cannot change permissions of ‘/usr/local/bin’: Operation not permitted

Alternatively, could there be a way to execute staticgen without installing it? the curl | sh command could execute the binary instead of installing it.

Tests

Would be nice :D

error saving error=context canceled

Prerequisites

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Description

When attempting to use staticgen against a live site, it runs for some time and then I get this:

 ERROR[0008] error saving              error=context canceled url=https://mydomain/somepath/file.pdf
 ERROR[0008] error saving              error=context canceled url=https://mydomain/somepath/other-file.pdf
 FATAL[0008] error: crawling: &{%!w(string=stopping: &{%!w(string=getting process group id: %!w(syscall.Errno=3))})}

  INFO[0008] Stopping server, sending SIGTERM

Note the domain is obfuscated here and below. I'll DM the real domain in slack.

Steps to Reproduce

Use this static.json

{
  "command": "true",
  "url": "https://mydomain/"
}

Then run staticgen

Stops on 404 405

Crawler stops on 404 or 405

Remove static.json configuration requirement

Kind of unnecessary overkill really, I'd kind of rather throw this stuff in a Makefile, not sure why I went with a config file.

• make it optional
• add flags instead

Larger examples

Right now they're not very real-world-ish

Docs: not clear if javascript is executed before page is crawled

Prerequisites

• I searched to see if the issue already exists.

Description

Would be nice to mention if crawler is executing js when visiting pages. A section in readme titled Javascript execution or similar would be good enough.

Slack

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Release binaries

Easier to install

Resource URL rewriting

I use imgix for all of my images, so it'd be nice to just replace those when compiling for production

Usage in CI tools

This may be a dumb question, but is it possible to use staticgen to build sites within CI (continuous integration) tools, such as Netlify builds and/or Github Actions? It's non-obvious to me since it requires the site be to be accessible via a URL.

Validate fragments

I had a few which were broken, might be nice as a separate tool though

Minify CSS

Add option to minify CSS output, right now you have to do this yourself after performing the build.