How to author content locally? #246
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We've installed Outstatic on our Next.js website. It's awesome, but I'd like to avoid pushing unfinished posts to I want to have a workflow I had with Hugo/Jekyll:
This process keeps Instead, what I'm doing now - I create a post with Outstatic, pull from main, edit the markdown locally, create a PR, merge to Is there a way to use Outstatic with local files? |
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Hey, |
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Just want to 2nd this. In addition to keeping the git history to a minimum, I'd also like to call out the metadata doesn't 100% catch up with content changes (especially around deletes). Local would, I think, make this a tad more efficient (given it's essentially a search index file roll-up of the files themselves). Wouldn't need to traverse the branch from afar and commit changes, but instead could monitor/track local. In addition, I could see the "publish" behavior (in "local mode") as the final commit of the content itself and the metadata changes. Just a thought. |
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Hey, thanks for the suggestion. Local editing is in the backlog. |
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Personally, I would love it if Outstatic could create files and metadata.json entry for a new post without a commit. I prefer editing Markdown directly and would love to be able to run a script to create a new post that I could work on locally and publish as a single commit when it's ready. |
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As an aside, I find it very inefficient that I have to edit both the post's front matter and metadata.json every time I make a change to the title or description in Markdown. |
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Hey, |
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I'm editing markdown files in VSCode. I don't use the Outstatic UI except for creating posts. Currently, we only use Outstatic as a database of posts. Once there's support for working on branches, we'll look at using the UI again. |
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Hey,
Unfortunately Outstatic doesn't currently support saving to local files.
I'm adding the ability of picking the branch you want to work with in the next version.