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Discussion on: Manage your dev.to blog posts from a GIT repo and use continuous deployment to auto publish/update them

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Sheldon

This is pretty cool. Can you help me understand the use case for this vs using Hugo and jeykll? Is this an alternative to creating your own static content and instead leveraging dev.to for hosting it all? Is there any advantage over rss feeds for integration for those of us who have our own site?

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Maxime

Hi, sure thing. It is instead to leverage dev.to to host it. As you're aware, a lot of people are publishing on dev.to. Maybe for the audience and visibility, maybe because they don't want to have to learn how to use Hugo and jekyll, or any other reason. But the point is, for those people I'm pretty sure it's hard to:

  • ask for a review before publishing
  • let someone somehow fix things in the article
  • keep track of changes if the article evolves
  • have a backup in case they mess up the article (failed save for e.g.)

With this solution, they can be setup in 2mn to use git and continuous integration to deploy on dev.to 😊

I hope it makes sense