Product Analysis: Parklife

Overview

Parklife is a Ruby library designed to render a Rack app, such as Rails or Sinatra, into a static site. This allows the app to be served by various static servers like Netlify, Now, GitHub Pages, or S3. It provides a simple way to convert dynamic applications into static sites for easier hosting and deployment.

Features

• Ruby Library: Parklife is a Ruby library that can be integrated into existing Rack apps.
• Supports Rails and Sinatra: Parklife supports rendering and converting both Rails and Sinatra applications into static sites.
• Integration with Static Servers: Parklife allows the static site build to be served by popular static servers like Netlify, Now, GitHub Pages, or S3.
• Configuration File: Parklife uses a configuration file called Parkfile, which is placed in the root of the project, to define the settings and options for the static site build.
• Routing: Parklife provides functionality to list and fetch the routes included in the application, making it easier to generate and save all the necessary route files.
• Assets Handling: Parklife doesn't handle assets like images and CSS by default, but provides guidance on how to generate and copy them to the build directory.
• URL Configuration: Parklife allows setting the base URL for mock requests, enabling correct linking using Rails _url helpers.
• Trailing Slashes: Parklife has an option to disable nested index.html files for routes, allowing for cleaner URLs without trailing slashes.
• Build Output Directory: The build output directory can be customized and is recreated before each build.
• Error Handling: Parklife offers options to handle 404 responses encountered during the build process.