Congrats + a first question :) about static

[tnylea]

Thanks @marcfilleul

Really appreciate it! I'm super pumped about this project. I was often looking for a Simple Static Site Generator, but hadn't really found one that made me happy or excited. That's why Static was born 😄

That Eleventy fetch package would probably work really well. Do you know the JSON format that is output from Airtable?

Here are a few ways we might do that

Using the Markdown as content

As long as the Markdown files get placed in the content folder it should be able to parse it. If it has frontmatter, you should be able to access it like normal.

On the otherhand if you wanted to loop through data such as a set of posts, you could add that as a collection.

Using the data in a collection

If you want to use that data as a collection, you could create it as a JSON file, such as posts.json in the collections folder. This could change down the road, but for now collections only work with a flat array of JSON data, like this:

[
    {
        "title": "Title Here",
        "description" : "description here..."
    },
    {
        "title": "Title 2 Here",
        "description" : "description 2 here..."
    },
    {
        "title": "Title 3 Here",
        "description" : "description 3 here..."
    }
]

Whereas this would not work:

[
    {
        "title": "Title Here",
        "description" : "description here...",
        "date" : {
            "month" : "Jan",
            "year" : "2018"
        }
    }
]

Unless you transformed that data 👆 into a flat array and then placed it to the collections folder.

I've also thought about the idea of adding a 'Plugin' system, where you could build additional functionality into Static by leveraging events throughout the build process. Let me know your thoughts 😁

Thanks as well for being the first issue submitter 👏

[marcfilleul]

I realize I should try to work on it before asking so let's pause this issue for now ;)

I'm going to try eleventy-fetch to fetch external json data and see if I can make it work.

Regarding the Airtable flavoured markdown coming from my json data, I will make some tests too.

[marcfilleul]

Thanks a lot for the detailed answer!
My json output from Airtable is not a flat array so it will spare me some time scratching my head 😅

I made some tests to see how far I could go compared to the Astro starter I've tailored for my clients.
There are too many limitations for my needs currently but I will follow this great journey!

I'll be happy to use Static for side projects and to help with feedbacks or ideas.

Keep up the good work 👏
Best regards.