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Learn about Static Site Generators

Learn about Static Site Generators

Introductory articles

  • An introduction to the JAMstack: the architecture of the modern web
  • Questions to ask before choosing a static site generator
  • Beginner’s Guide to Static Site Generators: A design house blog post offers a geekier introduction to the latest top crop of SSGs.
  • Comparing SSG build times
  • Going Headless: Use Cases And What It’s Good For

Tutorials

  • Building a static website with Jekyll and GitHub Pages: From The Programming Historian.
  • Creating and Hosting a Personal Site on GitHub Pages
  • Using Static Site Generators for Scholarly Publications and Open Educational Resources: from the Code4Lib Journal
  • Setting Up a Github Pages Site with Jekyll:Github documentation
  • Jekyll and Institutional Repositories: A presentation on leveraging Jekyll for scholarly publishing in academic libraries.

Resources

  • Jamstack Conference: Free videos repository from their conferences.
  • Jamstack Learning Resources
  • Get Started with Markdown: Markdown is a popular content markup syntax that is quicker and more convenient to use than hard coding HTML for your pages.
  • Liquid Basics: Liquid is the templating language used in Jekyll and others SSGs.
  • 15 minute hands-on web tutorial on using Git: Git is the version-control code repository for SSGs.