I find Jekyll to be very easy and useful to maintain static html sites and blogs, especially along with GitHub pages. Wanted to know if there are any Static site generators or CMS which helps in maintaining Jekyll sites with live preview, inline editing, layout management, file management etc.
There's an emerging market of "headless CMS" services that let you (or other writers) edit content through a web interface, and then access this content via an API. Most have webhooks that could be used to trigger regeneration of the static site when the content stored in the CMS is changed. Libraries for jekyll integrations already exist for these platforms.
List of headless CMSes:
Prismic (jekyll library)
Contentful (jekyll library)
Osmek
Storyblok (jekyll integration)
others
A few cool products fit the bill here:
CloudCannon
Siteleaf
Forestry.io
DatoCMS
Netlify CMS
jekyll-admin
Most of them sync directly with Git so devs can push directly on the repo, and non-techie users indirectly do the same by saving content (which trigger builds) in simpler UIs.
I personally like CloudCannon for its easy, more "visual" approach to editing stuff for non-technical folks (one of our dev wrote a full tuts on using CC + Jekyll for a multilingual site, should it be helpful).
Netlify CMS' open source approach is pretty neat too. The CMS is basically a react app you inject in any project.
Happy coding.
I have found these solutions:
http://www.siteleaf.com/
http://cloudcannon.com/
The second seems to be more promising to me. We basically want to develop the jekyll templates on our side, but want to have the possiblity for non-coders to edit the content online.
If you don't want to pay and you are okay with hosting a solution or do the editing offline, then you could try out this one: https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-admin (Although I haven't tried it, but if you do, please share your experiences with me.)
I just finished with a simple editor for the same. You can find it on github here. It is still in initial release stage but it does come with live preview for editing posts on jekyll and managing them.
I'm searching for the same, as all Static site generators I found require Markdown knowledge which isn't suitable at all for my clients.
I found this great CMS (Kinda!) https://sitecake.com/
Still don't know how to manage collections with it, say listing of few products with lightbox details, but I believe it is possible.
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I have it in my head to help people at my company get better by finding a way to highlight and call out good code.
In particular, I'd like to be able to mark a file (not a repository or directory) as having a "gold star" (or another badge) so people browsing our source code who see the badge can see they're looking at a really good implementation they might take inspiration from.
I'm taking inspiration from the code owners feature on GitHub where there's a little padlock icon on a file if it's assigned ownership by the CODEOWNERS file.
Is it possible to do a custom "badge" on GitHub? If so, what's the API?
Browsing the GitHub documentation and searching online, I wasn't able to find anything explaining how to do something like this. Most folks were talking about the little images badges like the code coverage badges people put in their readme files.
Checkout this thread. You can submit feature request to GitLab and GitHub or in case of GitLab code your own feature and submit PR.
Here are some closely related discussions. Probably you have already seen them and are not looking for them but you might use them to get idea of how to create the feature that you want.
The Shields service (at shields.io) provides a way to create custom badges for your projects. These are badges are very common and are frequently used to show status information about the project, or demonstrate tools that were used for the development of your project. (...more)
Also checkout Bring Your Own Badge
I was wondering if anyone has found a good solution for publishing their jsdoc/better-docs documentation on a website that isn't Github Pages (for privacy concerns)? I've built an api to retrieve the html files from the documented project but it loses the better-docs templating when it's no longer within the same project. Any recommendations would be appreciated. Thanks!
Github is pretty secure and you can also make everything private if needed.
I would recommend Github, if not you can always opt for any alternatives like:
GitLab
SourceForge
BitBucket
Launchpad
you can read here more: https://itsfoss.com/github-alternatives/
This really helpful question (and answer) works great for sharing a NetLogo model through a public folder in Dropbox.
However, my understanding is that Dropbox will no longer (though for the moment still does) support sharing HTML (and so NetLogo files) this way.
The question and answer above mentioned GitHub, and in particular the URL to the "raw" HTML file, as a potential solution. I tried this but had some problems.
Here's the file hosted via Dropbox (it works) : https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1190498/Virus%20on%20a%20Network%20(Hinze).html
Here's the identical, I think, (raw) file hosted via GitHub: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jrosen48/netlogo-models/master/Virus%20on%20a%20Network%20(Hinze).html
Thinking that the key was rendering the HTML, I tried to prepend https://htmlpreview.github.io/? to the file hosted via GitHub, to no avail.
How to share a NetLogo model through GitHub?
It's kind of sad that the rules for this keep changing, but I guess there are two things that I could kind of recommend. One is to use the NetLogo Modeling Commons. NLW versions of models uploaded there can be directly linked to, simply by uploading the .nlogo file—that is, you never even need to do "Export: HTML".
The other option—the option that I think I might recommend more strongly is to use GitHub Pages, which is essentially a free, basic web host. You can see here an example of a model that I uploaded to GitHub pages. The setup of the repository is quite trivial; I just made a repo named "[username].github.io", uploaded the exported HTML file, and then it was accessible from a predictable URL.
I have heard that, product based companies will look for what we have done outside of projects and also looking for the github profile.
In the meantime, I have created an automation application which addresses the specific requirement (Timesheet) in our organization. So, I thought of uploading this one too.
I have also done the screen cast and uploaded it to YouTube for adding in the profile (Resume).
This exact tool is not useful for all the people , but useful for the people in our organization, in which they can edit/contribute more.
Now I am having the question like, can I upload this kind of the code to GitHub?
Thanks.
Yes, you can.
Code on GitHub does not have to be useful to other people. You can push code there even if it is only useful to you or people in your organization.
You could also use a private repository if you do not want other people to see the code.
See: https://github.com/pricing
We maintain a website that contains a blog.
This blog is generated through Jekyll. My problem is that I need another internal department to edit/create posts, but they have no idea about git or any command line.
I was wondering if any plugin / CMS framework could be implemented around Jekyll to allow such thing.
I've already read about prose.io, but I don't want to run through GitHub Pages since the blog is host in the same place as the website it refers to.
Thank for any help !
You can use CloudCannon.com for easy editing and let CloudCannon sync your blog through FTP with your host. The result will be: the same hosting environment and a very user friendly CMS, which is designed specifically for Jekyll integration.
PS. You can use the free plan.