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  • Arsen6331 ☭OP
    5•1 year ago

    I’ve used Hugo quite a bit. It’s a static site generator. That’s the problem, it’s static. There’s no way to run actual Go code on a static site because it runs entirely client-side. However, Lemmy has an official JS client which is perfect for that use case. With lemmy-js-client, yes, you could (probably) display Lemmy info on a Hugo site

    • PicoBlaanket
      2•1 year ago

      Hey, thank you for the reply.

      I went through the js-client docs, and the available methods.

      Seems GetPost is the one required for importing comments.

      I suppose it would arrive (to Hugo) as a json object (identical to the one in the console log of a Lemmy post).

      Within that GetPost data, I see that each nested-comment has a parent-comment-id.

      **

      1 - So would the idea be to rebuild a UI for the nested comments section?

      (and then connect other JS-client objects to new UI-elements, such as voting-buttons and reply-inputs)?

      2 - Or is there an easier way to display the data, since [Lemmy] and [all built-Hugo-pages] are running on the same server/domain?

      (and since Lemmy already has the UI code to build nested comments)

      [NOTE: Lemmy is in docker, Hugo-pages are in /srv/]

      **

      Essentially - What is the suggested/optimal way to display that js-client info on a js-capable static page?

      [Please forgive any naiveté in those questions. I am willing to experiment with new approaches.]

      I appreciate your response. It’s good to know that this technique is available.

      • Arsen6331 ☭OP
        2•1 year ago

        If you want to actually display this information, you will need to use your own UI elements. If you want, you can simply reuse the code for lemmy-ui and modify it for whatever you need.