Jekyll VS eleventy 🕚⚡️

A few popular examples of static site generators include Hugo, Jekyll, and VuePress.

While WordPress is the obvious way to go, WordPress can turn into sort of a pain in the ass over the long term. I’m planning on turning my decaying blogs into static generated sites. You might just start with one of those, such as Jekyll.

I use a liquid template in Jekyll to generate my feed. I added some of the builtin filter functions to strip excess whitespace (strip) and to escape the characters (xml_escape) to be XML-compliant.

❸ The Jekyll -- https://jekyllrb.com/ theme I'm using is minima 2.5.1 -- https://rubygems.org/gems/minima/versions/2.5.1 , I modified the footer.html file to include the plugin snippet as shown:

Jekyll is a simple blog-aware static site generator used for creating personal websites, blogs, documentation websites, corporate websites, etc. Jekyll was built with the Ruby programming language, and it uses the liquid templating engine as its templating engine. Jekyll is also the engine that powers GitHub pages.

If it works for you, I think it's a great idea to keep your ideas on track. When it comes to hosting a devlog, Discord seems like a odd choice to make regular "posts", I'd personally just setup a free blog or a Jekyll site and maybe using someting like Github Pages to host it for free. Just make sure you're not spending more time writing posts and updates than actually working on the game. The devlog should complement and motivate the game's development, not replace it!

Sounds like a semi-static website to me. Take a look at Jekyll, or any other static site generator, if you have a minute or ten. They allow you to put together and maintain a CMS-like setup with plain HTML, CSS or Markdown.

Jekyll

I use Jekyll, hosted on github Pages (for free). I find that it works extremely well for blogging code and math, as well as for creating a personal home page.

In my Jekyll install I’ve got a _cards symbolic link to my _posts directory, and in my _config.yml I’ve got a defaults section that looks like this:

https://www.11ty.dev is great.

Eleventy. https://www.11ty.dev/

Or if you prefer more traditional templating languages like handlebars or liquid, Eleventy is a good choice too. https://www.11ty.dev

We use Eleventy (https://www.11ty.dev/) for the website.

I use eleventy for my static sites.

check out: https://www.11ty.dev/ (flexible, minimalistic js static site generator)

I tried out NextJS & Eleventy.

Eleventy is static site generator that is is able to mix template languages. Content can be written with Markdown or one of the other ten template languages. Or, dynamically create pages from local data or external sources that are compiled at build time. It has zero client-side JavaScript dependencies, so your site is truly static.

I'm curious what frontend frameworks you're all interested in these days? Powerful meta frameworks have been built using libraries like Vue and React. Next.js comes to mind: Remix is a new contender, and we have other notable projects like SvelteKit, Astro, Eleventy, etc.

11ty might be a good starting point for just this as you can easily try using a whole host of templating engines and see what you prefer.