Flask application to update a static site's data via JS files. The editor writes to a JS file and the static site reads from the JS file. See my site as an example of a site that consumes this application. It's a good tnterface for editing a github pages site!
Why did you make this? I wanted an interface to update my personal site so I could keep track of smaller scale things like papers I've been reading. I also did not want to add a full backend to my little static site for sake of simplicity (reading a JS file vs. consuming an API).
Why do you write to a JS file instead of a JSON file? To avoid cross-origin resource sharing. If you could load a website and have it try to access any file on your system then that would be a serious security breech, so most browsers do not allow this functionality. Hence, reading a JSON file is much more difficult than reading a JS file as we do not run into this cross-origins problem.
$ python -m flask run
Feel free to create an issue if you want to adapt any functionality or learn more!
- Save data to JSON (in a JS file) to be easily read into html documents with vanilla JS
- Push file changes to github (will require your own user token)
- Add/Edit/Delete JSON objects
- Extend to your own data needs - defined new schemas
- app
- data
# holds data that will be ported to static site - managers
# directory that handles managers that update data files - static
- templates
- __init__.py
- utils.py
- data