Switch to multi-page HTML output?

lggruspe / slipbox

A static site generator for Zettelkasten notes

https://lggruspe.github.io/slipbox

MIT License

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Switch to multi-page HTML output? #4

Open lggruspe opened 3 years ago

lggruspe commented 3 years ago

Why?

slipbox build generates HTML every time it's run. It might run into problems with extremely large notes.
Large pages take a while to load; the js waits for the entire DOM to load first.

Issues:

Some features rely on the output being single page. Ex: text search works by running fuse.js on the DOM.
Where to save HTML pages?

lggruspe commented 3 years ago

The search index could be pre-built using lunr.py at compile time, but it would need the content in plain text, and slipbox stores the notes as HTML in the database.

Getting the text from the note source isn't an option, because each file can contain multiple notes.
Another option is to get the textContent from the HTML in python...