Liquid VS astro

Inside the blog directory, create an index.liquid file. This will be our blog’s homepage. Eleventy provides a number of options when selecting a template engine. For this project, we’ll use Liquid.

Templating engine: SSGs rely on templating engines to define the structure of web pages. These engines enable developers to create reusable templates and incorporate dynamic content. Popular templating engines include Liquid, Handlebars, Mustache, EJS, ERB, HAML, and Slim.

For example, their theme templates use Liquid, which is a html templating system for Ruby. Activemerchant also was released by Shopify, and it provides a interface to major payment providers like PayPal.

In the meantime, Liquid v4.0.4 has been released, and allows building a Jekyll site with the latest Ruby.

Then, let’s create the simplest template for our static Eleventy page. We’ll write it using Liquid, but since it’s so simple, it won’t take advantage of any useful templating tags for now. Let’s call it index.liquid:

Previously I have used Jekyll for blogging and it has served me well for simple blogs and static websites. Jekyll is a static site generator that relies on Markdown, Liquid, HTML, and CSS. Which means no JavaScript -- a Jamstack without the J. With GitHub Pages you can even host Jekyll sites directly from your repository.2

Before march of last year, I was running Jekyll as my static site generator. It uses markdown and Liquid. My goal was to write a static site generator that would be a drop-in replacement so that I wouldn't have to change any of the input files.

For most of the common things I have to program, I didn't just program it, I programmed a program to generate it. Mostly an engine that parses Liquid Templates.

Liquid is an open-source template language created by Shopify and written in Ruby. It can be used to add dynamic content to pages, and to create a wide variety of custom templates. While DotLiquid is a templating system ported to the .NET framework from Ruby’s Liquid Markup.

Simpsons did it! Simpsons did it! :)

Depending on the stack of the repository you are cloning, you might have to install additional dependencies. For this demo, I'm using my own website, which is a static website built with Astro.js. It which requires to have Node.js installed and Yarn for package manager.

Database: turso [7] or neon postgres [8] with (drizzle orm) or cloudflare durable objects

1. https://github.com/withastro/astro

Maybe a bit too elaborate for your taste, but I've used https://astro.build/ and loved every bit of it.

Astro is an open-source JavaScript framework known for its versatility, performance, and new approach to web development. It enables developers to create fast, modern, content-rich web applications and sites using the "Bring Your Own Framework" (BYOF) model.

Astro was always on my list of things to learn. I've been using Remix and NextJS for a while, and I was interested in trying out a new framework. I decided it would be a good opportunity to build the site with it. This decision turned out to be a great one, as it saved me a lot of money on hosting costs later on.

We are continuing to make building fullstack websites and application with Analog and Angular as seamless as possible, and extending the Angular ecosystem through integrations with Astro, Nx, [Vitest]https://analogjs.org/docs/features/testing/vitest, Storybook, and more.

import { defineDb, defineTable, column } from 'astro:db'; const Visits = defineTable({ columns: { id: column.number({ primaryKey: true }), page: column.text({ default: 'home' }), content: column.text({ default: "none" }), pagination: column.number({ default: 1 }), visitor_ip_hash: column.text(), visitor_user_agent_hash: column.text(), visitor_count: column.number({ default: 1 }) } }); // https://astro.build/db/config export default defineDb({ tables: { Visits } });

Volar originally was Vue3's language support tool for VScode (I don't know about other editors). By today, volar has become a language indipendent framework to create language tools. It might still be a bit early for the dev with skill issues like me to use it and build some tools, but astro and svelte already use Volar to create their language tools.

I did some research and found an Astro template for a blog. Setting it up was easy as pie.

I first heard about Astro a couple of years ago when it became more popular among the JavaScript frameworks ecosystem. At first, it looked like a great framework to build a landing page, maybe a tiny, interactive web app.