Closed noraj closed 8 years ago
Hi. Nesta isn't actually a static site generator. It's licensed under the MIT license (about as "open source" as you can get).
https://github.com/gma/nesta/commit/1c4db11ae87c09006c8561bb2db776acabab4fb9
Cheers.
Hi,
oh I'm sorry i didn't recognize the MIT license. Nesta is a CMS but it read into markdown and textile files to provide html content ? So isn't it also a static site generator ? Can you explain me the difference please ?
Thanks
Sure. A "static site" is a web site made up entirely of pre-generated HTML files. So you update your HTML files when you update the site.
Nesta doesn't do that; it generates the HTML on the fly, as a page is requested. There are pros and cons of both approaches.
The fact that Nesta gets its content from a text file, rather than from a database server, doesn't mean it's "static". It just means you need a different "user interface" to update your "database" – I use a text editor and git, but you could use your iPad and a Dropbox client.
Basically, if you change the Markdown or Textile file, Nesta will serve new HTML immediately.
Nesta is more flexible, static site generators have fewer dependencies.
Hum, a great thanks for your explanation, I thought Nesta did that but that text files was genereted to static HTML the first time nad not on the fly. So that's all my bad.
Have a great evening.
Hello,
may be if you want to be more part of the open source community and see Nesta added to a static generator website list like Staticgen you'll have to change your copyright license to a open source license.
Tell me what you think about it.
Best regrds.