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How to add hard-coded website to square space? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have a couple sites on Google and since they sold to square space I thought I'd try to keep my stuff there. But I can't figure it out. Square space is a site builder with a GUI and I can't find anywhere to just deploy my site to them as a react app. I have found a few areas where I can add some code, but they are for specific areas of the provided templates. I've even tried to use developer mode, but it looks like you still need to follow their template rules to get anywhere.

It's been a huge headache, Google made it so easy.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Can't comment on square space, but you could maybe try firebase (google), github pages, or netlify as alternatives?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Just to throw out another one, there's also Cloudflare Pages.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can (or at least could ~5 years ago) easily serve a static site through an s3 bucket

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now you can just host static websites for free on gitlab/github.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

True, though I think GutHub does need a paid account if you want the repo to be private

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I mean if it's a static website unless it's using a generator, the source is accessible by just visiting the website. So having it public shouldn't matter too much, right? Even if it's using a generator, it's not like what you are writing is secret. That said I use GitLab and Hugo on a private repo. I have no reason to make it public and all the highly experienced web developers told me it simply doesn't need to be public so why make it public?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Good point! I rarely use plain static pages, there’s usually some templating involved if I’m going through GH pages.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I actually started looking at firebase today. I'm confused by it, but that's the case with everything new to me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You'll want to create a new firebase project, install the firebase CLI on your computer and then use the CLI to: login to firebase, select the project you created, and then using the CLI run firebase deploy wherever your code is. That should use firebase "hosting" to serve your static files.

I find Google Cloud's documentation extremely confusing (including firebase), so you're not alone on that front. Took a lot of searching & troubleshooting to finally get my setup working as I intended.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

netlify is amazing for static sites.