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🚀 Static-Repo-Page Kickstart

Technical documentation within a repository is often bound by strict standards, focusing primarily on the "how-to" of the code. Conversely, corporate or project websites are excellent for marketing, but they are fragile; repository-specific context is frequently lost when these external sites are restructured or repurposed.

A repository-resident static website bridges this gap.

By keeping the website code inside the repository, you gain significant benefits:

  • Persistent Context: The site exists as long as the repository exists.
  • Enriched Content: Easily include non-technical info, interactive examples, multimedia, and multi-language support.
  • Versioned Harmony: The "marketing" and "examples" stay in sync with the specific version of the code.
  • Complementary Value: While standard docs handle the "technical," the static site handles the "context"—including author profiles, related projects, and temporary "short-lived" highlights.

Static-Repo-Page Kickstart

  • creates a static website within short time and fills the most important configuration values, using an interactive setup-script.
  • provides basic deployment-workflows and configuration advises for single-platform solutions on GitHub or GitLab, but also a cross-platform solution where the Repository is hosted on GitLab but the website pushed to GitHub (which is used for this repository).
  • provides some basic documentation even for deployment-workflows and Docusaurus, the used building-framework, to get you succeeding as quick as possible with the new static website.

🏗️ Modular Architecture​

A "Sass-style" Bash framework uses atomic components to build the installer. This ensures the script is transparent, easy to audit, and simple to extend with new feature modules.

🌉 Optional Cross-Platform Deployment​

The ultimate bridge. Keep your "Source of Truth" on GitLab for private development and automatically mirror your documentation to GitHub Pages for global public visibility.

Alternatively you can use the installation-script also to prepare your static website exclusively for GitHub or GitLab.

📋 Standardization​

Professionalize your Git history immediately. We enforce TYPO3/Jira-style bracket tags ([FEATURE], [TASK]) and standardized Docusaurus configurations across your entire project ecosystem.

This is a matter of configuration, other commit styles are possible.

🛡️ Safety-First Philosophy​

Your existing data are respected. The "Pre-flight" engine performs rigorous collision detection and creates automated tar.gz backups before a single line of code is modified.

At every step of the installation-process where it's important, you get offered clear analysis, options and instructions.

And before you start the installation, you can read the documentation to get a detailed overview what the installation is doing and what you can expect.

⛯ Outlook & TODOs​

Having already realized several Docusaurus installations, I have developed a collection of specialized scripts to enhance the workflow. I plan to include these in future versions of this kickstarter to simplify common tasks and expand its core capabilities.

Regarding Workflow Actions, I will provide more detailed documentation and additional processing steps. I am also considering a standalone script focused on advanced, granular deployment needs.