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Figuring Out Vuepress Plugins

Thu, 15 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Vuepress is an up and coming static site generator based on the Vue.js framework. Plugin support was added in version 1.x and there are already a number of functional plugins. Many of these plugins are still lacking in documentation and required troubleshooting to get them working correctly. Example repos were created for a number of the plugins and shared back with the Vuepress community.

The blog Plugin

The blog plugin makes it easy to sort and filter the different posts according to their tag and category frontmatter. Tag and Category variables are created containing information from all of the posts containing that tag or category. A custom component can then be created to use this information and render it on the page. The example project can be found below.

Adding Netlify CMS to your VuePress website

Tue, 06 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Another great feature of Netlify is there Content Management System. This allows you to edit your website’s posts without the need of a git account, from anywhere through the website’s admin page, and with more than the typical text editor. Using Netlify’s CMS is currently not a few button click process but it is still very straight forward. These are the steps needed to get Netlify’s CMS running on your jpgage.

Hosting with Netlify

Thu, 06 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000

I love GitLab pages. Being able to host a simple website with the same service I use for code makes managing services a lot more convenient. Of course with everything we use there are always alternatives. This post talks about a static site hosting alternative called Netlify.

Hosting with Netlify

Netlify offers many of the same features as GitHub pages but, since static site hosting is their primary service, they throw in a few added features. A couple of these features are the ability to do form submissions and compatibility with all static site generators. A complete comparison of features can be found here: https://www.netlify.com/github-pages-vs-netlify/.