Static website pre-renderer

tj commented 4 years ago

In "Pre-rendering static websites with wget" I mentioned how to do this with wget, however, a small Go tool could be much more efficient at this, and it would be a cool little project.

Basically you'd start your web app, then run something like:

$ static-render http://localhost:3000

This would create a static copy of your site — to ./dist by default — ready for deployment.

[x] Basic implementation
[x] Handling of assets (css, rss, images, etc)
[x] Follow CSS imports
[x] Support for rendering 404 pages etc, which are not linked
[x] Add JSON configuration
[x] Timeouts
[x] Benchmark & profile with a huge site
[x] Add examples
[x] Add -C flag
[x] Simple static file server for previewing?
[ ] Add nicer logging and error reporting
[ ] Final polish
[ ] Blog post

ysm-dev commented 4 years ago

It's a bit different, but I saw a similar project monolith. Take a look. :)

stuartpb commented 4 years ago

I had an idea for a tool like this a while back that I planned to implement in Node.js, called "wjet" - if you implement this in Go, what do you think of calling it "wgot"?

tj commented 4 years ago

Definitely open to name ideas, I have none haha. It's more or less working, I just need to make it a bit nicer and I'll push a repo. With zero optimizations it renders around ~7000 pages per second on my machine

tj commented 4 years ago

still needs some polish but here we go! https://github.com/tj/staticgen

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