Parasol ☂️

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Parasol is creating a FOSS alternative to the JAM stack cloud computing platform Netlify which makes it easy to deploy and administer static-sites. Parasol aims to create a simplified user-experience aimed at individuals and small teams such as independent webdevs and co-ops who host websites for clients and NGOs.

Why?

For over a decade static-sites (aka The JAM Stack) have grown in popularity. From early generators like Jekyll to modern Hugo and Gatsby, they are used to create rich content websites like knowledge bases, wikis, small business sites, and government portals. Developing static websites is trivial for experienced developers and relatively easy for anyone who knows HTML, CSS, and JS to customize responsive open-source themes. Content is easily edited in any text editor as it's stored in Markdown. GUIs like Decap CMS provide a similar user-experience to Wordpress or Drupal for less technical users.

However, there are limited options for non-technical users to deploy static-sites to a webserver. Parasol addresses this need by creating an intuitive user experience empowering non-technical users to do everything from site generation to deployment as well as on-going edits and updates.

Milestones

A rough pathway to creating Parasol is broken up into these categories.

• 1. Create UI Dashboard
• 2. Minimum Deployment Recipes
  • Parasol Static Site - builds hugo sites + webhookd listener see #2
• 3. Additional Dev-ops Glue
• 4. User Testing

Dependencies

Parasol is being built or heavily considering the following core components:

• Abra
• Decap CMS
• Codeberg Pages
• Netlify: Git Gateway
• GoTrue Supabase fork of Netlify's original
• Netlify: Open-API
• Capsul or Kimchi (possibly)