Hi! I’d been searching static-site generator on embers and it turned out there are no mature solutions within ember community. I found https://github.com/robwebdev/ember-cli-staticboot but it has very limited functionality.
If you try something like Nuxt.js you’ll see what I mean.
My questions are:
Does ember team plan to make static site generator?
Are authors of ember-cli-staticboot going to continue active development?
Do you know any other solutions?
Do you think people actually need full-featured static site generator on Ember?
I think cdn’s like cloudflare do a good job speeding things up. See the example https://bloggr.exmer.com/ that is accessed via cloudflare. The Ember app is coming direct from a relatively slow CouchDB database on https://martinic.couchcluster.com/bloggr
See also ember-service-worker to speed things up for the second time. So I would not invest in a full-featured static site generator myself.
Very cool, to find this as I was dreaming about doing this as soon as I installed prember. However, does anyone know if I can use prember to output static files without Ember core linkages (eg. to vendor.css or including any ember files)?
Just looking to use all the goodness of ember but keep static pages super lean (or no .js at all).
I always find it fascinating how it’s quite often the case that a few different people start looking into very similar things independently at the same time!
I don’t know if you’ve noticed the announcements yet but we have just launched the new Ember Guides app that is essentially a fully working “static” site. I’ll be jumping into some deep-dive blog posts soon to explain how every little bit of it works but we have already updated the Guides App Readme and the Contributing guide on the Guides Source with details of how to get started contributing.
If you are interested in this static-site generation side of things then we would really appreciate your help on the Guides App and you should be able to figure out how to take some of the tech and run with it on your own projects. I have already built a side project that uses the same tech as the Ember Guides called Ember Casper Template
From the top of the readme:
This project is designed to be a fully-functional, static site implementation of the official Ghost Casper Template built on EmberJS with fully working out of the box SEO friendly output. It supports being hosted on AWS S3 or any other static site hosting solution.
And all of the above also uses prember (thanks @ef4)
It seems that issues are just off by default when you fork a repo, but that has been fixed now
I have submitted a request to emberobserver to see if they know what’s wrong, it looks like I have things set up correctly but I’m not too sure
No. This is currently a “take over your app” situation for the time being.
This is very early in its development cycle so it had a very narrow scope, very much a “do one thing and do it well” kinda thing.
We do want to be able to use this to maybe “mount” this app at a particular subroute of your app but for now, I would recommend using hosting strategies for this.
I imagine you probably ran something like ember install ember-casper-template and then it would have thrown an error along the lines of:
➜ test-blog git:(master) ember install ember-casper-template
npm: Installed ember-casper-template
ENOENT: no such file or directory, scandir 'content/'
if you go this error then it is likely that ember didn’t get a chance to install the necessary packages automatically. Just run ember g ember-casper-template and it will do that for you
I’ll take a look at making this a better experience for people wanting to try it out
For anyone else that was following this discussion, I have now fixed the issue @progand was having in v1.9.3 and it shouldn’t crash on you when you’re trying to install ember-casper-template.
You will still need to follow the instructions and create the content folder and a few others but now at least if you follow the documentation it’s working again
I’ve just tweeted about the next generation of the system powering ember-casper-template and I thought anyone watching this thread might be interested:
Essentially the section that contained “Essential steps to get this working” has been deleted and it works out of the box
All you need to do is the following snippet:
ember new super-blog
cd super-blog
ember install ember-ghost ember-ghost-casper-template
And it should work straight away! I have even populated it with example data so you can get a feel for what you need to do to get it working enjoy!
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