Understanding the nanopub flow

[kaushalmodi]

Hello,

I came across this post by you.

So, after nanopub does its thing.. you do have to rerun hugo. So that makes sense.

But then, the questions are:

• What triggers nanopub to generate new content?
• How does nanopub find the Hugo site source? i.e the content/ dir to save that new content to.. because the script is running on my domain.. which has no access to the actually site source in Markdown.
• Does nanopub itself trigger hugo rerun?
  • How do you trigger hugo rerun via nanopub for your site?
• I use Netlify, so the hugo rerun can be triggered using curl -X POST -d '' https://api.netlify.com/build_hooks/MY_API".
  • Can nanopub make that curl call?
  • Can I configure that MY_API as an env var, that nanopub can pick up? I wouldn't want to commit that to configs.php publicly (if you add that option).
• How do you save that newly generated content by nanopub?
  • Do you need to save that? Or does nanopub generate the whole fresh content from scratch each time?
  • If you do save, how to you do it? Do you or can you git commit that to a separate repo?

So many questions!

All of this can theoretically work if nanopub is able to create new content on Netlify disk.. which I don't know how to test.

[kaushalmodi]

Conversation that you could have missed on the IRC:

# 15:54 kaushalmodi dgold: Thank you. Just to let you know that it's alright if this doesn't work out. May be this is one of those things that I adapt to my site just as I learn, with time :)
# 15:55 kaushalmodi dgold: "I have _0_ experience of netlify": Simply put, Netlify provides free continuous deployment of my site with free hosting under the condition that all content is purely STATIC.. so no scripts running on their server.
# 15:55 kaushalmodi I commit my Hugo content files to Gitlab > Netlify sees the commits > Triggers hugo build > My site gets deployed
# 15:57 kaushalmodi About other possibilities, I found one person Josh Johnson on twitter who uses Hugo + Netlify but uses voxpelli's package that I referenced earlier
# 15:58 kaushalmodi .. using Heroku (which also I don't know anything about). So a roadblock there too.
# 15:58 kaushalmodi https://twitter.com/jnjosh/status/984634880586862592