Focus Group - Quarkus SSG => Roq

[ia3andy]

Hello folks,

I am starting a new initiative to allow Static Site Generation with Quarkus (similar to Hugo, Jekyll, Lume, ...).

Quarkus already provides most of the pieces to create great web applications (https://quarkus.io/guides/web).

I recently added https://github.com/quarkiverse/quarkus-roq. It will allow generating a static website out of any Quarkus application (it starts the app, fetch all the configured pages and assets, generate a static website and stop), it already works but it is still very alpha.

What's missing? we now need to incrementally add the toolkit to ease the process of creating static content through Quarkus:

• Static Data
• Markdown/Asciidoc and frontmatter
• SEO
• Image processing (Add image processing support quarkiverse/quarkus-web-bundler#42)
• Easy to configure routing

To go further:

• Compat with tools like https://frontmatter.codes/
• Roq GitHub action
• Dev-UI integrated headless CMS (to edit md/asciidoc on the fs)

This will allow to develop the content using Quarkus dev-mode, and then generate (on CI) for Github Pages or similar when it's ready.

Bonus, everything added will benefit any "non-static" Quarkus app and any static Quarkus app could also go back to being non static.

This effort is now tracked using a "Focus Group" (temporary wording) project: https://github.com/orgs/quarkiverse/projects/6

This is a great opportunity to participate in a fun focus group and be involved with the Quarkus community, if anyone is interested in being a part of this, please reach out to me 🚀

There will be small, medium, bigger features to develop with any level of involvement. Participating could just be giving thoughts and discussing things..

[ia3andy]

List of contributors already interested in being part of this effort, comment with +me and I'll add you to the list:
@mcruzdev
@melloware
@edewit
@mkouba
@ia3andy
@maxandersen

PS: I might be able to create some "Quarkus Roq" tee shirts for those involved 🤩

[maxandersen]

+me.

The idea of type safe data without requiring classes intrigues me:)

[ia3andy]

@liquidnya I thought you might be interested?

[melloware]

@tmulle thought you might be interested.

[ia3andy]

I added a poll on Zulip to choose a new name: https://quarkusio.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/187038-dev/topic/statiq/near/446537942

[ia3andy]

Roq it is