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Automate external posts update #2535

Open amztc34283 opened 3 weeks ago

amztc34283 commented 3 weeks ago

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Description & Motivation

I added some posts in my medium blog but they are not appearing in my site: https://amztc34283.github.io/blog/

Pitch

It looks like the web page is server-rendered so we probably have to figure out a way to pull update blog posts dynamically.

Alternatives

Open to discussion and suggestions.

Additional context

No response

george-gca commented 3 weeks ago

The external posts are fetched during build, so if a new build is not triggered, they will not be fetched. If your posts are not that frequent on medium, the easiest solution is to manually trigger the build action every time you post new content there.

As for the client side solution, not really sure if I like the idea. Since you post mainly content in there, wouldn't it be better to rather link the blog directly to your medium?