There's never been a better time to build websites

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ngrok

If opening the 80/443 port is such a nuissance in your setup, I would not bother with hosting from home and I'd just drop the website folder in Netlify Drop (https://app.netlify.com/drop) That's what I did for the first few iterations of https://lunar.fyi and it really helped with giving people the right information fast while I could keep spending time on the real work (developing the Lunar app) But if hosting from home is what matters the most, there is an easier way nowadays using Caddy (https://caddyserver.com) and ngrok (https://ngrok.com). For example, I just hosted this website (https://af62-2a02-2f0e-d00f-e100-f513-b43-fbc1-cf5d.ngrok.io) using the following commands: <pre><code> caddy file-server -listen 0.0.0.0:6001.

#Testing #Localhost Tools #Webhooks 368 social mentions

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Caddy

If opening the 80/443 port is such a nuissance in your setup, I would not bother with hosting from home and I'd just drop the website folder in Netlify Drop (https://app.netlify.com/drop) That's what I did for the first few iterations of https://lunar.fyi and it really helped with giving people the right information fast while I could keep spending time on the real work (developing the Lunar app) But if hosting from home is what matters the most, there is an easier way nowadays using Caddy (https://caddyserver.com) and ngrok (https://ngrok.com). For example, I just hosted this website (https://af62-2a02-2f0e-d00f-e100-f513-b43-fbc1-cf5d.ngrok.io) using the following commands: <pre><code> caddy file-server -listen 0.0.0.0:6001.

#Web Servers #HTTP/2 Web Server #Web And Application Servers 225 social mentions

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Webflow

I started in the 90s and have dipped in and out of web dev ever since, but my impression is that a lot of the complexity stems from organizations and teams getting bigger and needing to work with one another. Frameworks and tools proliferate in order to make it easier to spread the work out across devs, communicate with one another, deal with version control, etc. The other main reason is to deal with the fact that a lot of web 'pages' are actually apps now and have to talk to the server/there's a bunch of backend stuff going on, so there has to be reconciliation between front-end and back-end. If you're working on your own and don't need a back-end, there are options for putting up a personal site. Webflow[0] and Squarespace[1] come to mind. They'd be taken seriously semi-professionally in non-tech spaces. Can't speak to tech ones. [0]: https://webflow.com/?r=0 [1]: https://www.squarespace.com/.

#Website Builder #CMS #Website Design 131 social mentions

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Neocities

I used https://neocities.org/ recently to make a simple static html website with no issues and no configuration. And I'm someone who ususlly uses the more "advanced" stuff. It's nice having the freedom to chase a little nostalgia sometimes.

#Website Builder #CMS #Blogging 162 social mentions

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Micro.blog

Https://micro.blog for example does exactly this, sort of RSS based Twitter (i.e the idea is that your feed contains mostly shorter posts, but that’s not a hard restriction) . Give it the RSS of your website (they can also host one for you), "follow" other people (=subscribe to their rss feed) and boom there is your "social media".

#Blogging #CMS #Blogging Platform 32 social mentions

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Kit55

I have some reservations about Tailwind. Seems to me that the only use case that makes easier is to directly copy and paste HTML code that works, but in general I think you are right. One missing piece of the puzzle in these kind of articles is the lack of references to the fourth leg of web development, template systems (the other 3 being HTML/CSS/JS). There has not been many improvements on that front for years. Main reason why we built https://stack55.com.

#Website Builder #Static Site Generators #Multilingual Site Generator 18 social mentions

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Grav

#CMS #Website Builder #Blogging 47 social mentions

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Elm

For my money, the most exciting thing to happen to front-end development in a long time is the rise of Elm ( https://elm-lang.org/ ) I'm surprised nobody's mentioned it yet.

#Programming Language #OOP #Generic Programming Language 114 social mentions