Hugo
Hugo is a static site templating builder used here. It works well. It seems similar to how github pages works, but is written in go instead of ruby. It does take a little while to scan the documentation and setup, as some of the more complex themes don’t work with some integration solutions such as CloudFlare. Simple truths such as a theme being a fallback site make sense, as after some time migrating the templating to the theme and just using the site layouts for overrides just makes sense.
After a few concepts such as front matter, _index.md files and complex folder
with an index.md plus resources for complex “posts”, it all becomes simpler.
The ease with which new sections can be made besides the default “posts” is
good, although the documentation tends to be too over complex about this
simple process of expansion. Expanding the assets/css with template
layout alteration was easy once I’d read the simple layout files.
As soon as you find the place to inject the .js it’s just easy to make
client side apps, and something like HTMX could be used for this too, as I’m
sure with some aggregating servers and a backend shard database, complex sites
can be made.
It’s even possible to make content for each tag for a kind of context theming. I wish I’d had this in 1995. It would have made somethings much easier. It still doesn’t get passed the odd CSS order for float rights before the regular lefts.
Pagefind
An excellent static site client side site search provider. It needs cargo
and rust to build the build time indexer. It’s quite nice but I just
removed its stylesheet and plugged it in with some ignore properties to avoid
some bad links, duplicates and bad anchors. Just use your own CSS to style the
input form field. Pagefind
is nice.