A simple Lowdefy based site generator that uses CMS/Google-Sheets as a backend!

• Added Markdown, MarkdownWithCode, DangerousMarkdown Blocks support!
• Improved Templates and made them much modular.
• Made Excel-template simpler!
• bug fixes and improved PyLint
• Demo!

Lowdefy is an amazing Lowcode framework that allows us to write websites with mere YAML! More about that -> https://lowdefy.com

Via docker -

sudo docker run -itd -p 2583:3000 --name websheets --env GOOGLE_SHEETS_URL='YOURDRIVE_SHARING_URL' --env CRON_TIME_SECS=60 websheets:latest

You can also deploy the same with a docker-compose up -d -

version: "3.9"
services:
  web:
    image: "imvegeta/websheets:latest"
    environment:
      - GOOGLE_SHEETS_URL="YOUR_DRIVE_URL"
      - CRON_TIME_SECS=600
    ports:
     - 2583:3000
    restart: always

• Lowdefy templates:

  • adding multiple layouts and templates for homescreen and posts
  • "markdown" post template
  • image post template
  • post with image template
  • optional More button for each post
  • comment options for each post to
  • thoughts template
  • "other" items for every post(similar to about)

• Spreadsheets template -

  • documenting
  • customization
  • change detection
  • cron management from python to pull the spreadsheets changes automatically

• lighter and much secure docker image
• easing deployment options
• Portainer Template
• Pulling Spreadsheet from nextcloud/s3/minio/local/
• n8n workflow to update website
• "Auto" span for the given fields in social fields

It takes a google-sheet that is shared publically and generates websites based on that. However this excel sheet has to follow a very easy to create template that can be found here -> https://drive.google.com/file/d/17YiHNPSh8STfk1d6ZBjkvstJ_ZHLrrSd/view?usp=sharing

Jinja is used to render this data via the Lowdefy templates bundled here.