Building a web page that edits itself

5 comments

• stratts 15 hours ago
  This is an awesome idea and really resonates with me.

  I did something similar for my site:

  https://stratts.au/_editor/?preview=%2F&file=_site%2Fcontent...

  You can edit and rebuild the site from within the browser, then download a .zip that contains everything. The editor can even edit itself.

  Beyond self-modifying sites being just plain cool, there's a longevity aspect to it that I find very important as well.

  There's also https://www.sparktype.org/ (a browser based CMS) which is also along similar lines.
• androa 16 hours ago
  https://hyperclay.com
• lynx97 17 hours ago
  https://tiddlywiki.com/
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  • mano78 16 hours ago
    What I was thinking, too. But the description of the design process by OP was interesting to read.
  • p4bl0 17 hours ago
    I was coming here to link it. Glad I reloaded the page before commenting to see your comment appear.
• danlitt 15 hours ago
  This is lovely, but I think falls down the moment you want any generated content (table of contents being a typical first example).
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  • mlok 10 hours ago
    Some Javascript can generate this on such a local single-html file.
• flux3125 14 hours ago
  I was (positively) surprised that this didn't involve any AI.