A Look At
Presented by Joe Fleming
@w33ble
github.com/w33ble
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Agenda
- Intro Static Sites
- Demo DocPad Sites
- Install DocPad
- Renderers & Plugins
- DocPad workflow
- Bower & Grunt
Traditional Sites
Generates content for every request
- Slow
- Bloated
- Complex
Static Sites
Generate content for every change
- Fast
- Simple
Static Generators
Focus on content, not data
examples
Most Github Pages
Benefits
- Easy to setup
- Easy to deploy
- Many free/cheap hosting options
- Super fast
- Secure
- Works everywhere
Why DocPad?
- Backbone & QueryEngine
-
Scheduled rendering
- Simulate realtime
- Node.js
- Coffeescript
What is DocPad?
- Static site generator
- Content management tool
- Powered by the file system
- Does rendering via plugins
- Static site generation
- Built with Node and Express.js
Concepts
- Layouts
- Nesting
- Blocks
- Pages and posts
- Metadata
- Query-able datasets
- No Database
- Static assets
- Custom functionality
Example Time!
Docpad
By Joe Fleming
Docpad
DocPad slides, pre-cursor to the code examples
