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.