Show HN: HipstaDeploy – Generate and deploy static websites on CloudFront

proudlygeekOP12y ago· 2 in thread

Author here: Happy it can be useful to others :)

Right now i've only tested it with a local Ghost installation but theorically it should work with every blogging platform since it uses wget to fetch pages. Since it's basically a very silly and dumb shell script i didn't want to use something platform specific such as grunt / gulp / rake / whatever.

Feel free to give me your feedback about it (Bugs, Features, etc.)

oddevan12y ago

Do you have a link to a live demo?

proudlygeekOP12y ago

Yep, sure: http://d1ggong7924xq2.cloudfront.net/

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steadicat12y ago· 1 in thread

If anyone is interested in a Node.js alternative, it’s pretty straightforward to use Gulp (http://gulpjs.com/) for this. Take a look at the deploy task for my personal web site for an example: https://github.com/steadicat/attardi.org/blob/master/gulpfil...

e12e12y ago

But that assumes the files are available? Eg: it doesn't allow you to deploy a small mediawiki instance as a static site? (or any number of other smart/silly/useful/crazy uses for wget mirroring to disk, then copying)?

oddevan12y ago

THANK YOU!

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!

Currently I'm using a local Wordpress install and a static site plugin and I'm getting kinda fed up with the gotchas. (Detail and links at http://www.oddevan.com/about ) If this does what you say it does, not only can I automate the deploy process, I can move over to Ghost (which I'm already using for its superior Markdown editor).

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