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Hopefully I won't get down voted for this, but I've never understood why developers use something like Wordpress. Use Jekyll or Middleman. If you have the knowledge to do Angular tutorials you can type middleman build in a command line.

At work I've successfully taught a graphics designer and video editor to use Middleman. We use Github as the CMS(with markdown). They can pull down site with Github application and click a .command file to run it(for more involved changes). When they push it back up, it automatically builds. Just needs one click from there to go live.

Sorry for the little rant. The site does look promising but I can't get the other pages to load.

Wordpress has it's advantages, for example the huge number of plugins...

My experience has been that the plugin ecosystem looks a lot bigger from the outside.

My experience has been that there is nearly always a plugin for what you're attempting to do but they're hard to find (mostly because of naming) or they're poorly coded or missing features. Thankfully, most of them are GPL'd so you're pretty free to do whatever you want with them.

> so you're pretty free to do whatever you want with them

except when you actually look at the plugin's (or Wordpress's) source, you'll explode into a fountain of expletives.

In my former life as a freelance contractor, I found that reaching for a bottle at this point has much to recommend it; my usual regimen was roughly one ounce of Calvados, to one eight-ounce cup of strong black coffee, per hour. I found this to provide sufficient anesthesia to do what was necessary, without closely approaching the point of being too drunk to hack the sort of repulsively godawful PHP code which necessitates such anesthesia in the first place.

You know, I've never understood why developers use Jekyll or Middleman when they have access to something like Wordpress. I mean, after all, my opinion is what counts here.

It's a tool in a toolbox, the individual reaches in and pulls out the tool that works best for the given situation based on their own personal reasons.

Plus you can easily make it static without even touching the command line if that's all you want.

Is there now an official/very reputable way to do it? I've found 101 tutorials and random scripts when I've looked in the past but nothing I'd want to use in production.

http://wordpress.org/plugins/really-static/

It's old enough and well tested for me but you may differ.

Sorry, wasn't trying to come off like my opinion is the only one that matters. Just pointing out something I've noticed on hacker news over time.

Hi people. I'm the site owner. Honestly, I was not expecting to have so many visits at the beginning. I'm keeping it monitored to see if the current caching parameters are good enough. The site is on a shared hosting and I might contact the hosting provider to move it to less crowded server.

Quick tip: Merge your CSS and JS. It's killing your page load time: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/131223_MJ_Q59/

Your first paint is coming it at around 1.8s. You could probably get that under the 1s mark just by consolidating your resources. This is even more important when dealing with a library like Angular.

Thanks for the tip. I'll see what I can do. Most of the CSS and JS come from the WordPress theme and plugins actually.

Looks good. I am right now learning from http://www.thinkster.io/ and prefer that to angularjshub. It has a well laid out structure.

My eyes, they burn...

Seriously, please drop the animation, it completely detracts from might be a useful site, but the carousel genuinely gives me a headache.

the animation is not the problem, it actually looks decent

the problem is this site has no caching going on at all... to the site owner: do us all a favor, and install some popular caching plugin for wordpress...

... or maybe build it with angular.js...

It's not mine but I already contacted the author, hopefully he will get on track in time! :) (I was actually thinking to suggest him to build that in angular! :) )

Angular tutorial site built with Angular?

That might just work...

The idea is nice but why is it so slow? (Or is it only slow for me? latest chrome on mac)

incredibly slow for me as well

Looks like it's getting a bit more views than it was built for, :p.

I'm getting: "Could not connect to database" errors...

Oh the speed...how slow it is :( .

Well, as others have said, caching. Because the front page loads about 100 lines of CSS and Javascript files before any of the content actually starts.

Seems to do the same on the secondary pages as well.

Looks nice. I'm going to read through all these if I can get them to load. If you are looking for another resource, try https://egghead.io/lessons

Looks awesome, only one downside so far--is the code boxes they should be resizable by drag and drop, or a little wider/taller, hard to see and read all the code. Just a suggestion.

You can click the icons next to each code tab to see it at full size on a new page.

I contacted the owner and he is currently busy fixing the cache thing. I submitted without alert him before so I am the one to blame if the site is slow! :)

Look promising.

As others have said, it's too slow to be of any use. Also, I agree that the animations on the front page are terrible and need to go.

Made on wordpress actually without using angular, that's funny!

In my opinion, AngularJS should not be seen as a complete replacement of what already exists nowadays, it's just an additional tool and should be used only when appropriate (the right technology for the right task). Making a full website from scratch with AngularJS and creating all the useful features already available in the current WordPress ecosystem (themes, plugins, responsive design, ...) would just be too time consuming for a website providing examples and would not give much advantage. I'm the site creator and since I don't work on it full-time, the time it takes to make it is an important factor. I just hope I can provide some useful information on AngularJS. This is just my opinion of course :-)

tooooooooo slow

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