BACK to the Future: Static Blogs and Websites with Jekyll
summary
The talk explains using Jekyll plus GitHub Pages to create static websites that serve only HTML, reducing security and performance overhead and offering high portability. It covers the local build toolchain that generates static files and deployment options such as FTP or an SVN-sync deployment pipeline, gives examples of large sites (healthcare, Obama), and lists limitations: no database or native comments, no mobile editing apps, and features like full-text search or comments must be provided by external services or separate Elasticsearch indexes.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:33Static websites
- 3:38Website history
- 6:53Jekyll overview
- 9:03Static site drawbacks
- 11:33Jekyll workflow
- 15:03GitHub Pages
- 20:16Local Jekyll setup
- 24:57Hosting and deployment
- 27:11WordPress migration
- 28:55Search options
- 31:45Jekyll future
- 33:30Q&A
- 36:34Jekyll vs alternatives
- 41:38Static hosting options
- 43:26Mobile editing
- 45:41Summary
- 51:28Thanks
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