Bridgetown
A Webpack-aware, Ruby-powered static site generator for the modern Jamstack era
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. 😊
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- Developed byJared White
- LicensingOpen Source (MIT) and Free product.
- Written in
- Alternatives99 alternatives listed
Supported Languages
- English
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- 104 Forks
- 74 Open Issues
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- Documentation Generator
- Documentation
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DevelopmentRecent user activities on Bridgetown
Paul added Bridgetown as alternative(s) to Gojekyll
Alexandre ZANNI added Bridgetown as alternative(s) to lume (SSG)
Alexandre ZANNI added Bridgetown as alternative(s) to shokunin
It's like Jekyll, literally, but better and more functionality! I build most of my websites now with BridgetownRB.