Stapsher, what?
Stapsher is an API service that let’s you store user-generated contents as static data files right alongside your site’s contents in a git repository.
Stapsher, why?
Handling user-generated contents on static sites is a hassle. Usually you have to do one of the followings:
Use third-party services that inject contents in your pages
- Performance penalty
- Possible negative impact on SEO
- Lose control over parts of User Interface
Manage your own database to store user-generated contents
- Introduces complexity
- Defeats the soul purpose of having a static site in the first place
Stapsher provides numerous advantages over those:
- Everything is Static
- No database needed
- Completely Open-sourced
- Total control over User Interface
Stapsher, how?
In short:
- Receives user-generated contents
- Validates & processes them
- Generates static data file
- Pushes the data file to git repository
Where do I start?
You can use our Public API hosted at https://stapsher.extrastatic.xyz:
Or you can also host your own instance of Stapsher, if you want: