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Generate your document site in 3 seconds

76 points| WittBulter | 7 years ago |fine.sh | reply

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[+] snazz|7 years ago|reply
It’s funny that this README just assumes you have Node installed. Not having ever used it before, I had no idea what “npx” was or did. A “requirements” or “dependencies” section on the homepage would be nice, as would a comparison to other static site generators.
[+] giancarlostoro|7 years ago|reply
Hell I have node and I don't even know what npx is. There should be a PEP8 for readme's. Can a 5 year old figure out your README? or something close to that extent. Otherwise their README is fine.
[+] karolg|7 years ago|reply
It is explained in the next paragraph what "npx" is:

> Yep. cool? “npx” allows you to run a temporary package, which will be deleted right after each use. Use this command to try and experience how Fine works. Doesn’t hurt to try, huh?

[+] kpgraham|7 years ago|reply
Thanks. I have need something like this, but the web pages do not indicate anything about what it does, how it works or how to use it. I don't have Node installed, either, so it was a waste of time clicking through. I wonder why it was posted here?
[+] herodotus|7 years ago|reply
I have read this a couple of times, and I still have no idea what it is telling me or doing. What am I missing?
[+] factorialboy|7 years ago|reply
The key is to invent a new term for an existing entity. Here the author tries to introduce the term "document site" for static websites.
[+] whorleater|7 years ago|reply
It's a static site generator
[+] JoeSmithson|7 years ago|reply
Seems like essentially a free hosting service for websites generated from Markdown
[+] jedberg|7 years ago|reply
Sounds just like Infogami used to be. You know what infogami turned into? A small public database. 99% of the traffic we got was to a single page which was just a config file for a popular Firefox add on.
[+] voltagex_|7 years ago|reply
"fine.sh can be used ONLY to distribute contents without implications in any kind for financial gains.

fine.sh reserves the right to remove illegal or inappropriate contents without prior warnings to its users and assist authorities on any necessary investigation."

[+] nickthemagicman|7 years ago|reply
So to be clear, this site takes an MD file and publishes it to one of its fine paths as an HTML file?
[+] supz|7 years ago|reply
Apparently... seems like some kind of malware seed that somehow made it past the moderators. Read the entire site and the description is entirely useless.
[+] owie|7 years ago|reply
Why is it named fine.sh? It’s not a shell script. I was kind of interested until I read npx. (Then looked it up and found out it’s some node thing). Now I’m disappointed. It’s just misleading.
[+] ChrisGranger|7 years ago|reply
.sh is Saint Helena's country code tld, so it doesn't need to have anything to do with shell scripting. It's not like the site is fine.bash or something...
[+] philliphaydon|7 years ago|reply
Probably just happened to be the shortest domain extension avaliable for “fine”
[+] tkjef|7 years ago|reply
I'm making a project similar to this called NanoCD: https://github.com/tkjef/nanocd

except can be used with any SSG or plain static sites on S3, GCS or Spaces (from digitalocean).

The dependencies are noted clearly in the README. ;)

[+] rqs|7 years ago|reply
> <a href="javascript:;" target="_blank" class="cell">中文 / Chinese</a>

Why?

[+] zaidf|7 years ago|reply
Suggestion: in your example, clearly show what you’re inputting (including contents of the input file/folder), then in the end, clearly show what is outputted with a link to the output file.
[+] austincheney|7 years ago|reply
All things considered 3 seconds isn't impressive.

My site is fully loaded and functional in the browser in 1.6s according to https://www.webpagetest.org/ and its a giant web app with more than 1.5mb of JavaScript application code.

As far as actually generating documentation my documentation is dynamically built into various formats from a data object and written to file in about 3ms.

[+] ricardobeat|7 years ago|reply
This builds & deploys your site on a public custom domain name in '3s'.