This blog aims at writting about my experiences in programming, so what better start but to talk about my experience building this blog !
First and foremost, show me the code.
Hearing about Armin "flask" Ronacher's new project, I figured out lektor was exactly the tool I was looking for. Beside a young project means opportunitiestocontribute, adding your little rocks to the growing mountain is so much rewarding ;-)
Working with lektor feels like flask: you get the concept in a glimpse, have a working poc in minutes but thanks to it great architecture there is plugins for basically all your needs.
I have to say this is really impressing for such a young project !
Now for (literally) the big picture:
This is a pretty classic workflow, a few comments though:
lektor provides plenty ways to deploy, my choice was... none ! Armin presented lektor as a way for him to handle his parents' blog without suffering too much. Basically he (as the "tech guy") had to configure at first the project (how to deploy, the css etc.) then he can hand it to his parents who will be able to create&update posts and deploy inside a CMS gui (the dev lektor server running on their own computer). Furthermore, they could just throw the lektor project folder inside their Dropbox and to get their blog saved without hassles !
This is an awesome workflow for non-technical people, but as someone who use git everyday I want to be able to write an article in a branch, then merge it to the master and finally have my blog updated once the code is pushed on github...
...wich leads us to Travis. I love the way you can
store secret inside the .travis.yml.
Travis creates a gpg key for each project and uses it to crypt your data. Of
course only trusted build have access to those data to prevent someone sending
you a PR with echo $MY_SECRET_VAR to steal your stuff !
Considering the hosting, I first thought about github pages but I don't feel comfortable storing my Github credentials within Travis (even if I could create a token with limited access, the granularity would allow write access to all my public repos...).
So I head up to netlify, the service seems good, they put a little token (can't miss it though !) on the right corner but given the storage is free I would call this an exchange of interests ;-)
I'm less happy with the fact you must use the netlify command to deploy your stuff on their servers, sftp cannot beat the swag of a nodejs bloat with a shiny colored cli I guess...