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Show HN: Tinasaurus – a Docusaurus starter project with TinaCMS

by sgallant on 2/28/23, 6:33 PM with 12 comments

  • by addcn on 2/28/23, 8:10 PM

    Wow. I've managed docs sites with hundreds of pages on Docusaurus and I could see this being very useful. Is there a way to important what I've already got today? I feel like now that I'm in the mud, it is hard to climb out. Might be more work to use a CMS at this point than keep going here.

  • by solarkraft on 3/1/23, 12:31 PM

    Tina is cool and this is cool!

    But I wonder: Why is inline editing so unpopular?

    You already have a visual editor, based on HTML. Why not put the content within its context to make the WYSIWYG experience complete?

    It's definitely possible to blend in, as demonstrated by the Dokuwiki visual editor (https://github.com/fablab-luenen/dokuwiki-visual-editor). You just use normal HTML tags and they're styled by the surrounding CSS no differently than non-editable text.

    I would much prefer actually editing the text on the page over what feels like editing the "source text" in a pane on the side. It just takes you so much closer to the content: My website is already well configured to be comfortable to read (and thus write to), but the sidebar editor is definitely not.

    Yet I'm not aware of any (open source) project that does this, even though it seems to me like all the required technical components are there.

  • by sgallant on 2/28/23, 6:38 PM

    Hi HN, we (tina.io) are big fans Docusaurus so we created a starter project to show how you can best use TinaCMS to edit a Docusaurus site.

    Here's a link to the announcement article https://tina.io/tinasaurus

    And here's a 5-min overview of the project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bHBwM54UB8

    Happy writing!

  • by stehtisch123 on 2/28/23, 8:42 PM

    Hey, that is a great addition! Can I use Tina with custom static page generators as well? Also markdown based but much more primitive than docusaurus.

  • by logna-anderson on 2/28/23, 8:48 PM

    Can't wait to give it a spin!