I made a file-first plant care database

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Hey, I wanted to share my hobby project: a file-first houseplant and plant care database.I originally built it with a fully-fledged API (using Rust Axum) + Postgres database to store and serve plant care data to a frontend. It worked, but quickly felt like overengineering for a read-only reference site.So I rebuilt it as a file-first static site: each species/genus/family is a markdown file with structured metadata. This is the 'database'. A static site generator then builds all pages from these files.For example a plant genus may have the following fields:--- name: Impatiensfamilia: Balsaminaceaecommon_names: impatiens, jewelweed, touch-me-not, snapweed, patience, balsam or busy lizzie.etym

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Website: houseplantguide.org