Static site generator for github pages

[oelna]

In case you’re interested, I got a similar solution working (building the static site with GitHub actions) and posted about it:

Full hosting on GitHub Pages, automatic static build via actions

I recently came across the plugin kirby3-static-site-generator and had a thought: what if you could run the build process for the site in a GitHub action? I had just learned you can update the repo content itself from actions, so this made (some) sense. If you build the static site in ./docs, you could even host it on GitHub pages! I spent some time to set it up, but it seems to be working (?) You can’t use the panel, obviously, but as an academic exercise I find it fascinating. Whenever you p…