Re:Jekyll Lambda – Minimal Theme for Jekyll
by danso on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @04:50PM
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Middleman is amazing, I build all of my sites with it...it's a nice mix of Jekyll's ease with the flexibility of being able to write as much templating/backend logic as you need (basically, the ability to use Erb). For any site in which you don't need a database, in which your content can be serialized as several hundred JSON/yaml objects, I think Middleman is fantastic.
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Re:Jekyll Lambda – Minimal Theme for Jekyll
by astockwell on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @05:52PM
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+1, I started with Jekyll for my personal site but quickly switched. Ultimately I found Middleman had much more functionality baked in, especially things like the ability to use a yaml file of projects to drive a portfolio page, or to fetch a series of release URLs from GitHub and include them on a page upon build. Probably all possible with Jekyll, but not as easily at the time. YMMV.
Re:Jekyll Lambda – Minimal Theme for Jekyll
by danso on Thursday November 12, 2015 @01:35AM
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Jekyll now supports data files that can be used in roughly the same way...so I've actually been able to build decent sites with just Jekyll, when I need to collaborate with someone else, as Jekyll is much more common a platform and has the bonus of being able to "just work" with Github pages if you don't add any plugins.