Non-javascript-friendly site

[bengm]

Find a solution to keep the site design, etc., but use a static site generator (jekyll/similar) for the site build. Other solutions could work. Acceptance criteria:

• Site is no harder to update / add content to
• Works in browsers without javascript
• Still works w/ simple github pages hosting model

[bengm]

Did some research, and this will take a little work. Options explored:

Jekyll: This is the default option for github pages site generation. Has templating, lots of other practical features and flexibility. Allows maintaining content in relatively simple markdown & yaml formats. It will take some effort to unwind the css & js embedded in the current vue app, and replicate some of the js/css build process. Might be easy with a bit of consultation.

Vuepress: I'm not 100% on the scope of this, it is still in pre-release with lots of disclaimers, but seems to generate static sites based on vue. Benefit would be building on what we already have (vue). Drawback is that: 1) it might not do what we need, seems to be also a gitbook type of use case; 2) it's not mature, self-described as buggy.

[RobAWilkinson]

Gatsby
Easy to use react based static site generator, things gracefully degrade as needed if browsers dont have JS. Drawback: lots of work to refactor and convert to react from Vue.

@bengm I've heard a few folks have success with Vuepress.

[openbrian]

I was getting a reload issue. The home page without #/ route was a white page. I thought it might be a JS issue. Now that I see other caching issues, maybe that's it. A hard refresh worked.

But while I'm here, let me suggest https://nuxtjs.org/ static site generator.