Bridgetown
In a nutshell, Bridgetown is a static site generator. You give it text written in an author-friendly markup language like Markdown, and it uses layouts and templates to build a website and save the compiled HTML, CSS, and Javascript to an output folder.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Self-Hosted
- Ruby
- RubyGems
Features
- Support for MarkDown
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Live Preview
- Static Site Generator
- Server-side rendering
Bridgetown News & Activities
Recent activities
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AI info: To install Bridgetown, you need to have Ruby version 2.7 or above, Node version 12 or above, and Yarn installed on your system. Additionally, you should install Bridgetown as a Gem after setting up your Ruby environment.
- POX added Bridgetown as alternative to Axum
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Bridgetown information
Developed by
Jared WhiteLicensing
Open Source (MIT) and Free product.Written in
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What is Bridgetown?
In a nutshell, Bridgetown is a static site generator. You give it text written in an author-friendly markup language like Markdown, and it uses layouts and templates to build a website and save the compiled HTML, CSS, and Javascript to an output folder. You can tweak how you want the pages to look, what data gets displayed on the site, and more.
Bridgetown works best as part of a version-controlled repository powered by Git. You can centrally store your repository on a service like GitHub so that you and everyone else working on the website (plus your hosting provider) all have direct, secure access to the latest website content and design files.
During the development process, you will likely be running Bridgetown from the command line on your local developer machine (or perhaps a remote staging server). Once content is ready to publish, you would commit your website codebase to the Git repository and use an automated build tool to generate and upload the final output to a server or CDN (Content Delivery Network). Netlify is a popular service for this, but there are many others. You can also just literally copy the generated files contained in the output folder to any HTTP web server and it should Just Work. 😊
Comments and Reviews
It's like Jekyll, literally, but better and more functionality! I've built websites for clients using Bridgetown in the past and it's been a good experience on Linux developing them.
AI info: To install Bridgetown, you need to have Ruby version 2.7 or above, Node version 12 or above, and Yarn installed on your system. Additionally, you should install Bridgetown as a Gem after setting up your Ruby environment.