News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Show HN: Docute – Fast way to create a documentation site by mygo on Sunday September 30, 2018 @02:02PM (#18107370)
Thanks for making this, it looks very nice and I’m always looking for things like this.

> renders them as a single-page application.

The problem with SPA’s is that unless there’s server-side-rendering with routing, they will not be reliably crawled by search engines.

One of the benefits of having published documentation is that each page gets indexed by google and so each page is essentially a hyper-targeted marketing page with specific keywords.

Just wanted raise a concern I’ve experienced with hosting websites as SPA’s. I see in your comparisons you list other tools that render static HTML. Do you think in your roadmap you would have an option to export a directory of HTML pages?

Re:Show HN: Docute – Fast way to create a documentation site by pacoWebConsult on Sunday September 30, 2018 @02:18PM (#18107452)
> If you care about SEO, you may like using tokio [1] to prerender your website.

[1]: https://github.com/egoist/tokio

Re:Show HN: Docute – Fast way to create a documentation site by egfx on Sunday September 30, 2018 @03:48PM (#18107998)
Yes, indeed. Routing on SPA's is HARD. Especially in production. One of these things you have to experience before you fully appreciate.