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Dynamic to StaticOnboarding to static site generation from a dynamic workflow
@biilmann www.netlify.com
What is Static?It’s not about:
Dynamic content vs static brochure Database vs Flat Files Writing HTML by hand
Typical Static Site Generator Flow
Lets look at netlify.com - currently a Jekyll based site
The Modern Static Site GeneratorTemplating
Asset Pipeline Content
Metadata Filtering & Sorting
Plugins
What to look for: Asset Pipeline
Sass/CoffeeScript/Babel.js/Less/Stylus/etc,etc,etc Composable? Extensible? vs Simple? No configuration?
Bower? NPM?
What to look for: Content
Typically Markdown ReStructuredText
External APIs? Contentful, Prismic, Google Docs
What to look for: Filter & Sort
Code in templates? Built-in Sort and Filter features?
Easy helper methods?
What to look for: Plugins
Can you write plugins? Plugin ecosystem?
What’s possible with a plugin? Plugin Hooks?