Articles Tagged jekyll

There are so many static site generators (SSGs). It’s overwhelming trying to decide where to start. While an abundance of helpful articles may help wade through the (popular) options, they don’t magically make the decision easy.

I’ve been on a quest to help make that decision easier. A colleague of mine built a static site generator evaluation cheatsheet. It provides a really nice snapshot across numerous popular SSG choices. What’s missing is how they actually perform in action.… Read article “Comparing Static Site Generator Build Times”

Dave Rupert:

When cruising through the Includes documentation I noticed a relatively new feature where you can pass data into a component.

I was similarly excited learning about Macros in Nunjucks. Then:

After a couple days of writing includes like this I thought to myself “Why am I not just writing Web Components?”

The following is a guest post by Mike Neumegen from CloudCannon. This final post is about adding some functionality to a Jekyll site that isn’t possible: comments. That’s because Jekyll has no backend component in which to save comments. But, we don’t even need that if we do it entirely front-end with Firebase!… Read article “Building a Jekyll Site – Part 3 of 3: Creating a Firebase-Backed Commenting System”

The following is a sponsored guest post by Mike Neumegen from CloudCannon. This series is all about not only building a Jekyll site but then adding simple editability through CloudCannon.… Read article “Building a Jekyll Site – Part 2 of 3: Adding a Jekyll CMS with CloudCannon”

The following is a guest post by Mike Neumegen from CloudCannon. Mike and I talked about doing a little series on building Jekyll sites, which of course I was into because Jekyll is great and more education around static site generators is a good thing. Full disclosure, Mike’s company CloudCannon is a CMS on top of Jekyll. As part of this series, he’s going to show you how to use that, so I requested it be a sponsored post.… Read article “Building a Jekyll Site – Part 1 of 3: Converting a Static Website To Jekyll”