Static web site and web application builder

Static+ builds web sites from a data stream and some HTML templates.

It can deploy the site as files in your filesystem, an S3 or CloudFront site, or from CouchDB.

Static+ allows the following work flow:

[CouchDB data] --> Static+ --+--> HTML5 files on your disk
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                             or
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                             +--> HTML5 attachments in CouchDB
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                             or
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                             +--> HTML5 files in S3/CloudFront (planned)
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                             or
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                             +--> HTML5 files in Dropbox (planned)

Static deployment to CouchDB

Typically Static+ deploys a site to CouchDB.

Wait, why would I round-trip from CouchDB and back?

Because Static+ turns a database full of data into a document full of attachments. That's the "plus" part.

• Fast. No shows, no lists, no views. Every request is a static download from an attachment.
• Push to a staging URL for QA, promote into production with an atomic transaction
• Every path in the site is static, simple, and fast; with two exceptions:
  1. /_couchdb gives your site AJAX access to the CouchDB server hosting the site.
  2. /_db give your site AJAX access to the database hosting the site.

Personally, I (Jason) think this is the perfect Couch app. It is very scalable. It is very fast. It is very simple. The basic web site has zero moving parts. Then I use Browser Request to access a simple, standard CouchDB API.

Usage

Install it from NPM

npm install static-plus

Static+ is flexible; however; its "beaten path" looks like this:

1. You define a Handlebars template
2. You define a source database. Static+ spits out (roughly) one web page per document.
3. You define a target and Static+ deploys the output to there. Valid targets:
   1. A directory in a filesystem
   2. S3. Just CNAME your domain there and you're done
   3. CouchDB attachments, plus access to the Couch API
4. Static+ watch the database _changes feed, updating the site when appropriate

License

Apache 2.0