Building a static website with daily updated data.
Hi everyone,
For my next project, I plan to build a 1000+ pages website that will display analytics (imagine Google trends for Spotify for example) updated monthly.
While I figured out the way to update and store the analytics I'd like to know what you think is the easiest to embed continuously updated data in a static website?
I thought about using Sheet2Site but I fear it might not be flexible enough.
I wanted to know if you know other interesting tools.
Thanks, and Happy New Year 😉
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I built thedailystartup.club in November on React + Bootstrap + gulp for the build. Data is in Airtable and build + Hosting is on Netlify. I've got a cron job rebuild and queue up a Tweet for the day's feature in HootSuite via Zapier.
This month I built the-ux-mini-course.com on Next.js running on Zeit.co
Both work great, but I will say the extra server-side support out of the box if you build on Next.js is amazing!
In fact I got so much mileage out of it (once I got all the libs added and cofigured) I'm building a starter kit (excelerant.pro) that'll get a next-based project up and ready for the fun value-add work out of the gate with TypeScript, Bootstrap, Material Design Icons, Markdown support and a set of landing, blog, ecommerce, etc... page templates.
If you give Excelerant a look, I'd really appreciate any feedback :)
Happy New Year!
Wouah, good job!
Thank you very much for your answer.
I'll check it out and come back to you ;)
With a monthly update and 1000+ pages you can easily use any SSG but especially Hugo to regenerate the whole site. If the data updates higher than daily freq, especially less than minute than, I would consider use for example google firestore to show “real time” updates.
Yeah I've read the Hugo doc section about data store and I might go that way.
Nextjs is all the hype.
I built a static site generator that compiles 550 pages in 0.3secs, so there is always that option. It then uploads to s3 and hosted from there.
link
It is private repo, the code is pretty complex and I don't have time to write docs etc for it.
Might open source it later on.
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Interesting, will check it out, I have 0 experience in React so I don't know if I should go down this path.