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statiqdev / Statiq.Web

Statiq Web is a flexible static site generator written in .NET.
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Visual Builder /Components, coming anytime soon #976

Closed fasteddys closed 2 years ago

fasteddys commented 2 years ago

Hello are you planning on a visual builder for components

daveaglick commented 2 years ago

I'm not sure I'm following...you mean a visual builder for web components? Statiq is an engine that helps generate the HTML, CSS, and other assets that comprise a web site. It doesn't generally know or care about what's inside those assets though (other than being able to do some HTML manipulation, etc. to make the job of generation easier). In other words, the particular web technologies, frameworks, JavaScript, CSS, etc. that you use are mostly outside the scope of Statiq. It can help you generate and create those artifacts, and can even help interpret and use them, but it's not intended as a full content management system or all-in-one website maker outside of themes.

So I guess the answer is "no" (assuming I understood the question). Did that answer it?

fasteddys commented 2 years ago

Hello, I was asking there will be visual drag and drop build like grape.js or vvvwebjs. I dont need a CMS, just wondering how to quickly create ASP MVC components, partials, VC, tagHelpes etc.

I am trying to understand how to use it, and confused with the documentation. In the help, I saw the sample with mark down section, but I don't know how to create tables / cards / pills etc in markdown.

Or, are you saying with static, I can take any Bootstrap 4/5 HTML compliant site and port it/create a Razor ready site. If so, this would be FANTASTIC, many asp core MVC razor developers would be excited, and even contribute.

I am asking this because I saw the razor compiler classes that were built into your framework and wondering how and what do they do?

daveaglick commented 2 years ago

Ah, no - there are no plans to create drag-and-drop or visual GUIs for putting together Razor components, web components, or any other front-end UI elements. You're welcome to use other tools to create those and use them inside your site being generated by Statiq though.

In more general terms, Statiq is a "static generator" and it might be helpful to understand the scope of those kinds of tools. Other examples similar to Statiq include 11ty and Hugo. Perhaps reading about those and seeing where they have commonalities and how they compare will help things "click"