Show HN: Shite: The little hot-reloadin' static site maker from shell

Re:Show HN: Shite: The little hot-reloadin' static site make... by andrewmcwatters on Monday January 23, 2023 @01:41PM (#34493050)

Hey Aditya, you can make your command a little more unix-y if you feel so compelled by just renaming `shite.sh' to `shite' and run the shell script as a utility since it's already `chmod +x`'d.

Then you can `shite(1)` anywhere you want after you put the command in your PATH and feel like a proper `git(1)`.

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Re:Show HN: Shite: The little hot-reloadin' static site make... by adityaathalye on Monday January 23, 2023 @01:48PM (#34493150)

Thank you for the review! If only you knew of all the glorious plans :,)

Apropos your note, may I direct you to "Unrealised Ambitions" in the README https://github.com/adityaathalye/shite#unrealised-ambitions

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Re:Show HN: Shite: The little hot-reloadin' static site make... by appletrotter on Monday January 23, 2023 @04:28PM (#34495333)

> Apropos your note, may I direct you to "Unrealised Ambitions" in the README https://github.com/adityaathalye/shite#unrealised-ambitions

It doesn't have to be an unrealized ambition with a simple `mv` command ;)

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Re:Show HN: Shite: The little hot-reloadin' static site make... by adityaathalye on Monday January 23, 2023 @02:12PM (#34493479)

Sidelight: I tend to use functions as Unix tools a lot more than scripts as Unix tools. No need for PATH twiddling, file ownership/permission setting, among other things. I wrote about it here: https://www.evalapply.org/posts/shell-aint-a-bad-place-to-fp...

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Re:Show HN: Shite: The little hot-reloadin' static site make... by freedomben on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @11:33AM (#34505917)

I do this too! Bash functions are incredible. They have to be the most awesome under-used function (pun intended) I know of

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Re:Show HN: Shite: The little hot-reloadin' static site make... by adityaathalye on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @01:21PM (#34507670)

Ah a fellow person of culture :D

Maybe you will enjoy my "bash-toolkit" repo: https://github.com/adityaathalye/bash-toolkit which I've dubbed my "Swiss Army Toolkit" of functions-as-cmd-line-tools and useful-to-me patterns.

Which reminds me, I've collected more and should update the repo!

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Re:Show HN: Shite: The little hot-reloadin' static site make... by TechBro8615 on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @12:54PM (#34507267)

I like this as a user but it always throws me off when I see it in a Git repo, where I'd prefer the .sh extension to hint at what's inside the file.

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Re:Show HN: Shite: The little hot-reloadin' static site make... by adityaathalye on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @01:36PM (#34507925)

Indeed, this is why I retained the `.sh`.

If it were designed as a proper userspace tool (it is not, and may never be), I might have dropped the file extension. But I might also have chosen to keep the `.sh`, and create an alias instead, during install. That way I get to have both micro-conveniences.

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Re:Show HN: Shite: The little hot-reloadin' static site make... by andrewmcwatters on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @03:23PM (#34509725)

For reference, I think npm does this too, and IIRC, they just symlink the utility name.

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