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by marcosscriven 161 days ago
I like Hugo, but I’ve not found a nice workflow to automatically put the images on a CDN.

I was thinking of making a GitHub action that uploaded the image from a given branch, deleted it, set the URL, and finally merged only the md files to main.
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coder543 161 days ago
If you're okay with the images being on a CDN, why wouldn't you also be okay with the HTML and CSS also being on the CDN? Just fronting the entire static site with a pull-through CDN is an easy solution that doesn't require any complicated workflow.
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marcosscriven 161 days ago
I’m talking about integrating with GitHub. Publishing to Cloudflare for instance is fine, but where do you put the images between drafting and publishing?

Or do you just check in images to GitHub and call it a day?

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coder543 161 days ago
I wasn't suggesting publishing to Cloudflare, just that if you're concerned about the complexity of the workflow of getting images into the CDN, simply fronting whatever host you're using with a CDN of some kind (which could be Cloudflare) will solve that.

Usually you just store the images in the same git repo as the markdown. How you initially host the static site once generated is up to you.

The problem with storing binaries in Git is when they change frequently, since that will quickly bloat the repo. But, images that are part of the website will ~never change over time, so they don't really cause problems.

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fsflyer 161 days ago
I commit the images alongside the markdown files in GitHub. My site is has numerous images and there are logical groups of posts. I make those logical groups of posts a git submodule, so I don't have all posts on my machine (or iPad) at one time.

Working Copy (git for iPad) handles submodules reasonably well, I have a few that I'm working on cloned on it and others are not so I don't use so much space.

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ashishb 161 days ago
Why not put the whole site behind CDN?
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