Folks,
5+ years ago, I launched
https://telegr.am ... a static site hosting service that took Markdown from GitHub and Dropbox and turned it into a static site. The renderer (the thing that converted Markdown, etc.) into HTML was based on
https://github.com/hoisted and did sweet things in a Lift-like way.
Sadly, very few folks got excited about Hoisted or Telegram. Yeah, it powers my personal web site as well as the
https://liftweb.net site.
Over the last 5 years, not much has happened with Telegram other than to add automatic SSL support via Let's Encrypt.
In the last couple of months, I've updated Telegram to do a whole ton of things.
First, renderers are pluggable so that you can use Hugo, GatsbyJS, Jekyll, etc. as well as Hoisted.
Second, rendering is done in a pipeline with multiple phases, so you can render a static site and then deploy a Serverless app.
There's even support for proxying (technically, reverse proxying) requests to Telegram-hosted sites to external services... so your static site can proxy all the /api/* calls to a backend, without CORS concerns.
I'm hoping to stoke some interest in Telegram to turn it into more than just a side project.
Thanks,
David
PS -- The main Telegram site is, and always has been, powered by Lift.