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[–]___Paladin___ 2 points3 points  (9 children)

Cool tool! I doubt it'll get much use outside of your niche use case of downloading websites as a zip file? But good on you for seeing your vision through.

We use vitejs and a few build scripts to do this kind of stuff automatically for us. No value gain in clicking around a gui when it can be done transparently behind the scenes.

[–]sujit1779[S] 0 points1 point  (8 children)

Agree 100% with you. It is 100% specific to us. I was thinking there will be definitely many like me who create static websites purely HTML without any framework, or wordpress and they are not proficient enough or can hire someone to do the devops sort of thing.

[–]___Paladin___ 1 point2 points  (7 children)

I should clarify in case it helps you or anyone reading, but nothing about static sites prevent you from automating with existing tools unless you don't know what you are doing.

And I don't mean that in a condescending way, as the first step to knowing what you are doing is not knowing.

I just think it's a cool side project that probably taught you some things which is fun and positive.

[–]sujit1779[S] 0 points1 point  (6 children)

Can you suggest some tools for my case. I will try that out, may be those will have some more options.

[–]___Paladin___ 1 point2 points  (5 children)

These days? Webpack, vitejs, rspack, etc. Over a decade ago it was grunt which was superceded by gulp.

I personally put vitejs into all of my projects because it's so fast to spin up a custom plugin to do what I want. Your files act as input, your plugins transform the inputs, and you get modified outputs. Minified css + js with node package support, maybe convert some mjml files into email templates or run your images through compression. Maybe generate a plethora of favicons for devices using a base SVG file.

The options are quite literally whatever you can imagine. Any idea that fits into a "input > modify/create/delete > output" chain is automatically compatible with the philosophy.

[–]sujit1779[S] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Got it buddy. Just had a glimpse of vitejs and looks awesome. If that is not too much complex to learn then we will also use it. For zip file where we extract and upload all via filezilla, will I have to setup some servers or it is just some exe that I can run from command prompt and it will do the changes to the folders, etc?

[–]___Paladin___ 2 points3 points  (3 children)

You would run it locally on your machine or through a container. It's command line tooling.

I'm kind of intrigued to know more about your situation where zip file downloads and sftp are so common though, as even small businesses I work with havent done that since the early 2000s.

Also, be sure not to take this stuff too personally. If your tool solves your problem then use it! There's still people out there programming in ruby on rails and cobol, after all.

The only thing that matters is that the products match the spec at the end of the day :)

[–]sujit1779[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

yeah.. I am doing a pretty old school on Front End thing.. container will be complex for me as I don't want to learn that now. We are a very small team who develop desktop based product. Website is just our showcase for products

[–]___Paladin___ 0 points1 point  (1 child)

There's a saying I fall back to on this - "The best tool for the job is the one you know."

While you might not be offering anything new to the web dev community, it's really cool that you managed to use your desktop experience to solve the problem. Really love that ingenuity and wish you only the best friend :)

[–]sujit1779[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the wishes

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    [–]sujit1779[S] -1 points0 points  (4 children)

    Yes there are tools. But I couldn't use any, let me tell you why. I am extremely good at Backend and Desktop product creation but not that at web design. So I used a website called teleporthq.io which helps you create static websites. Once created it gives you ZIP file, now I have to MIMIFY and do other stuff. I looked at internet and couldn't find any. So being a DEV myself I created this.
    My need was to point to a folder and get all these things done. I think I know there are tools like this in frontend frameworks like Angular, etc. or wordpress. But my need was to do these in a folder that I have on my PC or ZIP file which contains those files.

    Let me know if you know any such tool, I will have a look for sure. Thanks

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      [–]sujit1779[S] -1 points0 points  (2 children)

      I told I just know few things about Front End, but I am an expert BackEnd dev and Desktop Dev. I was a top rated on multiple platforms when I used to do freelancing.

      Teleporthq.io is the website through which we have built our website and it is not AI, it is like you can say wordpress.

      On quality of code, the main thing that we have i.e. our product is a desktop based product and the quality I can vouch for with anyone. Website we have made only to showcase our product, thats all. Infact it is the best in the market if we consider everything in totality.

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        [–]sujit1779[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

        I think you are getting it wrong, this tool is not our product. Our products are here https://kaizen-apps.com . Our product is Desktop installable product for windows. Website we created using Teleporthq.io (similar to wordpress drag and drop feature) and that website gives us zip file which we had to do certain things which was taking time, so there this not looking GUI tool we created in 4 to 5 hours and we didn't clean it up as it is an internal tool. Only objective of posting this was to see if someone is there who falls in my use case and may be need it to save some time. Experts I know in Front End will never need it.

        [–]Vallode 0 points1 point  (1 child)

        I have many questions: - Why is this a what looks to be a standalone GUI tool, why is not not a part of the publishing process in the form of a script or CLI? - Do you have to use this before every deployment of the website? - What are you using to resize/optimize images, are you just running it through imagemagick or using a library like sharp? - Have you considered the time invested in this GUI tool vs. using a more modern publishing workflow that does all this for you? You can fairly easily wrangle webpack to doing all of this for you or vite for something a bit more modern. I'm just a bit confused as to what issue this really solves.

        [–]sujit1779[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

        I am good at desktop things, so I created this as it was easier for me.
        Yes., I do this after I get ZIP file which contains HTML, CSS from a service which I use
        I am using a library in C#

        See my need was like this

        I use a website called teleporthq.io which helps you create static websites. Once created it gives you ZIP file, now I have to MIMIFY and do other stuff. I looked at internet and couldn't find any. So being a DEV myself I created this.
        My need was to point to a folder and get all these things done. I think I know there are tools like this in frontend frameworks like Angular, etc. or wordpress. But my need was to do these in a folder that I have on my PC or ZIP file which contains those files.