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Static Site Blog Post Generator

Dan Vega on April 24, 2019

If you're using something like Gatsby or Gridsome as your blogging platform there is no UI to create a new blog post. The process usually starts wi...
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Tamara Temple •

great post! back in the days i used ruby a lot more, i wrote a similar thing for jekyll called jekyllpress.

i have a talk burbling in the back of my head about writing generator scripts in general. that swift boredom / laziness that begets these things is wonderful

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Dan Vega •

I think as developers we generally love to solve problems and when we can solve our own problems we get really excited about that :) Thanks for commenting!

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Yash Kadaru •

I haven't heard of Gridsome before... bookmarked! Thank you

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Loya Blaise •

This is a good one sir.

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Dan Vega •

Thank you, Loya :)

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Dan Vega •

I love your reason (just because)... It's a great opportunity to build something that is useful. Nice work!

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Kahlil Lechelt •

Very nice! I made a CLI for this as well :D

dev.to/kahlil/blog-cli-a-cli-for-b...

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Dan Vega •

Awesome, I love your blog --publish! Thanks for sharing

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Amine Hammou •

Great thank you!!

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Gautam Krishna R • • Edited

You can try using netlify cms paired with hugo if you need gui in editing posts...

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Niko Heikkilä •

Thanks for this post! I made small modifications and added the script to my own site's repo.

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Dan Vega •

Awesome work Niko, I like some of the things you're doing in your script :)