Staticman: user-generated content for static sites

If you don't prefer a third-party comments system for whatever, you can always host your own and insert it in your static site the same as you would with Disqus. I was considering doing this for a while and found React has a pretty good tutorial https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/tutorial.html

reubano3• 11 years ago

Pretty nifty! Do you decide to go down this route?

higon• 11 years ago

Wanted to try out a bit. But approving a permission request for "read/write all the Github PRIVATE repository" and "read/WRITE all the my info." is alarmingly risky...

And this site itself is not even open-sourced? hmmm.

eduardoboucas5• 11 years ago

I admit that sucks a bit, but unfortunately the GitHub API doesn't offer per-repository scopes. I'll have to think of a better way, maybe Staticman could be a bot that you give access to on a specific repo.

metachris2• 11 years ago

If you want to make this project a success, consider to release it under an open source license!

DaGardner• 11 years ago

Or just send pull requests, if a user doesn't want to grant push access (this can also be used as comment moderation)

metachris2• 11 years ago

Spam detection of some sort would be a necessity.

eduardoboucas5• 11 years ago

Agree! Definitely something I need to look into. Thanks.

reilly3000• 11 years ago

This definitely looks malicious. Is the business model controlling everybody's repos??

eduardoboucas5• 11 years ago

Not really my plan, no. Sorry it looks malicious to you.

kristopolous• 11 years ago

The definition of 'static' here I think may be a little different. It appears you are repurposing technologies to effectively be a database which aren't considered a database (at least in this context) in order to dynamically generate content in the users browser on the fly.

So templated dynamic html from a "database" is a fine architecture, but not what most people I think would call "static".

A "static" system would be more like Doxygen where the content is "compiled" into straight html/css pages

jfim2• 11 years ago

So now we've come full circle to what Movable Type did over a decade ago (static generation based on contents stored in a database)?

gadders• 11 years ago

Or CityDesk from Fog Creek 14 years ago: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000010.html

reubano3• 11 years ago

Did those software support user content such as comments? Also, from my understanding, this project relies on flat files and not a db. So you could essentially eliminate the need for any http requests.

jfim2• 11 years ago

Movable Type supported user comments as well as trackbacks and pingbacks.

fenollp• 11 years ago

Is it possible to OAuth on GitHub from the static site, have a nice form there that creates a pull request on this repo, then travis validates it?

Makes up for Wiki, comments, user login, …

Staticman: user-generated content for static sites

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