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You can find all the code on Github. Elixir renders static HTML pages from Markdown and YAML content. Most pages are blog posts. There are additional pages such as the about page. And XML files are generated for the Sitemap and RSS feed.
I have to give a huge shout out Jason Stiebs' post on the fly.io blog. I followed the tutorial to use NimblePublisher to read markdown files, render them to HTML using Phoenix LiveView HEEx templates and integrate Tailwind into the setup. Having Tailwind available is something I really wanted. I plan to use it to simplify my hardly maintainable CSS.
The setup includes a tiny Plug server to serve files during development and ExSync auto-compiles the site when files change.
After running my blog with Hugo hosted on Netlify for nearly a decade, I decided to migrate to a custom solution. I think I resisted the urge to rewrite my personal site for long enough and I deserve to have some fun. I am not going to find an excuse. I wanted to do this in Elixir. I wanted to build all the details of a static website from scratch once. It feels empowering to understand everything. And everything I learned along the way is generally useful Elixir knowledge. There are no concepts specific to a single static side generator.