Introducing: Simple Site Generator

[stefanvanherwijnen]

Simple Site Generator

Easily generate a simple but full-featured website.

https://github.com/simsustech/simple-site-generator

Try it online

https://codesandbox.io/p/sandbox/simple-site-generator-jdhg1d

Background

I have been a Quasar user since the very beginning, and in my opinion it still is the best framework out there. One annoyance I had during these years is keeping my websites up-to-date throughout major updates and new features. Since the content is usually tightly coupled with HTML/JS in single file components, updating multiple websites to a new version is quite a lot of manual (repetitive) labour.

For the (simple) websites which I host, I use the same basic project setup and functionality. When a new feature was available, I had to update them one by one. Also, a major pet peeve of mine is web designs which break functionality (e.g. non-responsive, text overflows, unclickable links and buttons).

The solution to these problems:

• Separating content from functionality and design.
• Easily bootstrapping a new project from the command line.
• Choose and configure a high-quality template.
• Using CI/CD to automatically build a statically generated site and upload it to the webserver.

And the implementation of this is what Simple Site Generator has grown into.
The generated website is powered by Quasar Framework (obviously 😁) and build with Vitrify, the Vite powered full-stack development tool which I developed alongside Simple Site Generator.

Development

At the moment, the generated websites are production-ready, but Simple Site Generator itself can be considered a beta release. I had some attempts at creating a CLI, but so far these have stranded due to node_modules errors.
Ideally, one would have a project with just a configuration file and a pages folder and be able to run simple-site-generator build|dev.
Any feedback is appreciated.