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How to add hard-coded website to square space? (self.programming)

submitted 1 year ago by reric88 to c/programming

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I have a couple sites on Google and since they sold to square space I thought I'd try to keep my stuff there. But I can't figure it out. Square space is a site builder with a GUI and I can't find anywhere to just deploy my site to them as a react app. I have found a few areas where I can add some code, but they are for specific areas of the provided templates. I've even tried to use developer mode, but it looks like you still need to follow their template rules to get anywhere.

It's been a huge headache, Google made it so easy.

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[–] Quexotic 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're supposed to have amazing customer service. Ask them. I bet good money that you can't do what you're trying to do though. Best of luck to you.

[–] reric88 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks! I kind of figured it out after a lot of searching and trial and error.

I removed all but one page, and removed all content on that page. In website settings, there's an option for "code injection". This is where I pasted all my code, but I had to do it in a weird way.

I built the website with React, and each page was it's own component. I had to build the project, and then take all of the JS created from the build process and wrap them in script tags, and wrap the CSS in style tags. Then I had to make a div with an id of root within the code injection body. Afterwards, I copied and pasted all the JS and CSS under the root div.

It's not perfect and I need to tweak some things, but the site is 90% intact.

[–] Quexotic 2 points 1 year ago

That... That's a lot.

I'm glad you figured it out. I think I would have switched services.

[–] kambusha@feddit.ch 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Can't comment on square space, but you could maybe try firebase (google), github pages, or netlify as alternatives?

[–] GammaGames 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You can (or at least could ~5 years ago) easily serve a static site through an s3 bucket

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[–] catacomb 2 points 1 year ago

Just to throw out another one, there's also Cloudflare Pages.

[–] reric88 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I actually started looking at firebase today. I'm confused by it, but that's the case with everything new to me.

[–] kambusha@feddit.ch 1 points 1 year ago

You'll want to create a new firebase project, install the firebase CLI on your computer and then use the CLI to: login to firebase, select the project you created, and then using the CLI run firebase deploy wherever your code is. That should use firebase "hosting" to serve your static files.

I find Google Cloud's documentation extremely confusing (including firebase), so you're not alone on that front. Took a lot of searching & troubleshooting to finally get my setup working as I intended.

[–] Yoruio@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

netlify is amazing for static sites.

[–] ag_roberston_author 1 points 1 year ago

Try porkbun. They have static hosting options, including to host from a GitHub repo.