Static sites are websites that have no dynamic components, e.g. databases or server-side scripting languages. A number of static site generators exist in a variety of languages, such as Jekyll, Wintersmith, and Pelican.
Questions tagged [static-site]
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jekyll to watch haml and sass
I already had a project with .haml and .scss files in various folders.
I followed this guide here http://winstonyw.com/2013/02/24/jekyll_haml_sass_and_github_pages/ to create _plugins/haml.rb and _plugins/sass.rb
I moved all my .scss files into…

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Error with SCSS generation in Jekyll 2.0
I have my project laid out like so:
-Project
-css
-import.scss
-_sass/
main.scss
The contents of import.scss are:
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@import "main.scss";
What I expected to happen was for main.scss to be imported into import.scss, then,…

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Dump my MVC site to static files
I want to build a simple site with MVC but then render the "pages" and corresponding "assets" (js, css, images, etc) to what one might call a "static site".
In other words, I don't want to deploy to an IIS server that supports MVC. I simply want to…

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NextJS advice for SSG/SSR and Google Analytics/cookies
I have a NextJS site which is statically generated at build (SSG).
There are two things I need to implement next
Google Analytics
GDPR compliant opt-in cookie options
The first one is easy enough to do, however i'm struggling with making this GDPR…

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using jquery and sticky-kit in gatsby/react
i found a post here showing me how to use jquery with gatsby and that works fine. Now my main problem is using sticky kit, a jquery plugin and i am getting the error "$(...).stick_in_parent is not a function", i have checked all possible…
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Jekyll collection with subdirectories and own index.html
Hello and thank you in advance for any help/suggestions regarding my issue,
Background information: I have been working with the Jekyll static-site generator, The theme I am using has one blog feature being posts this is in use already.
The existing…

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Implementing "Login with GitHub" on a GitHub Pages static site
I'm trying to write a website that can be hosted a static site on GitHub Pages, that will support a "Login with GitHub" option.
The user credentials will then be used to access and contribute to the repository that the GitHub Pages website is based…

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How to use Next.js Automatic Static Site Optimization and still export for Netlify?
I have been working on implementing some of the updates from Next 9.3. I have been moving from getInitialProps to getServerSideProps and noticed that my exportPathMap became unhappy with these pages becoming dynamic. Everything works fine running…

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Setting up static website project with TypeScript in Visual Studio
I can find only samples on how to set up a TypeScript project in conjuction with some server technology (ASP.NET Core for instance). I want to use Visual Studio in order to be able to write my client-side code in TypeScript which then gets…

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How to add search functionality to a static website?
I'm developing an encyclopedia-type site, of sorts. Essentially the site contains pages for words, definitions, concepts, and blog posts, and I intend to add a new page/post every week or so. I currently have about 40 HTML pages for each post.…

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Communicate with devices on local network using client-side Javascript
I'm trying to build a website that allows you to transfer files to devices connected on your local network. This website is static, and will be hosted on GitHub pages.
Is it possible to use Javascript to communicate with (i.e. transfer files/text)…

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How can I debug nextjs export
I have a thousand-pages site built with nextjs and mysql. When I generate static pages using the next export command I sometimes get the Hangup warning. There isn't any useful information about what is going wrong.
Each page requests data from…

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Add CSS rules to Pelican without creating a theme
I rather like the default Pelican theme notmyidea. It serves my purposes nicely.
However, in order to implement the Python-Markdown admonishments extension, I need to add a few css rules to the template.
Nothing I can find in the documentation (or…

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Is it possible to pre-render some, but not all, Vue JS components?
I'm relatively new to Vue JS but I've wanted to build something with it for some time. What I want to do is build an entire site as Vue JS components, have most of the site pre-rendered as static HTML, JS, and CSS, but keep a couple components as…

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Repeat string multiple times in Jekyll
How do you repeat string multiple times in Jekyll?
For eg: in Python, you can do "hello" * 5 to get 'hellohellohellohellohello'. In Jekyll is there an easier way of doing the same thing than this.
{% for i in (1..5) %}
Hello
{% endfor…

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