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@adjb @silex

Silex generates 11ty layouts but you need to create them from within silex
As for the content, Silex needs to know about the data structure (so that you can link html elements to specific data) and for that you need a graphql api. You can use directly most CMSs or you can create a #graphql api from markdown files with #tinacms or other tools
Finally you can just have any eleventy config file and tweak the gitlab pipeline to deploy to anywhere with rsync or ftp or any cli tool

#introduction

Hello front-end.social! I'm Phil, moving here from an instance hosted by my consultancy that we decided to shutter.

I've been making web sites for clients for 2 years on an #astro / #tinacms stack, and am running a Next app for an early stage startup. Between all that and raising a young kid, I don't have much free time.

My crown jewel is https://phils-web-site.net, an ode to the Olde Internete where I try to do my most colorful writing.

Happy to be here!

phils web site

WELCOME TO MY ZONE

I like what #tinacms has to offer in terms of a git-based #CMS, but I loathe #React and #NextJS . They support #hugo as far as I can tell, but their starter template doesn't work. Crashes during startup 😒

#decapcms seems like a reasonable alternative. Plenty of support for many #ssg tools like #11ty, but the editing experience in #decapcms is pretty boring. Doesn't really offer anything for me beyond what I could simply do with text files.

I want a decent editing experience, where I can both author blog posts, but also build my web-site using blocks/components. #Tinacms seems pretty ok all around, but looking at the starter sample, the code is crazy convoluted. There is more wrapper-code and boilerplate than there is actual HTML. Hard to know where to even start.

#cloudcannon has an excellent alternative. If this was free for individuals, I'd jump right on that. But I'm just running a little personal website that makes no revenue, so I don't want to fork out $50 a month for it.

Anyway, #sendhelp

#Writing #Archbee #Docusaurus #TinaCMS

This week on the Byte High No Limit blog, Hybrid document management systems revisited. How to keep your writers and developer-contributors happy.

https://buff.ly/4gTGnEq

Hybrid document management systems revisited

An alternative to component content management systems.

Eeeh, took a few moths break from a #web-dev project that used #StaticCMS as a #Git-based #CMS for a #StaticSite and now I'm learning it is archived and development has stopped 😅

Any toughts on alternatives? #TinaCMS? #DecapCMS? Is Netlify funding the latter? Is Netlify evil?

@astro have you folks built any support for #TinaCMS to support the MDX components that typically appear in Starlight?

I'd like to be able to author docs with the CMS while utilizing the components you folks have built.

I’ve been struggling with how to do some #tinacms stuff in @astro since they assume you’re using Next for the most part, and if I do manage to hack a path through, I’ll be sure to blog about it
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is there a thing called developer adhd ?

I do know that i might be in the range BUT here me out :

everytime im diving into a project then as i work on it i get cought up in uuuuh but what about this intergration or that or that
for the last couple of years if have been building steady my #11ty website build with a cms in the backend using #decapcms

but now after a week of looking suddenly its uh but what about #tinacms / frontmatter...

its like no focus at all or am i just to curious ?