Bridgetown

In short, Bridgetown is a static site generator. You provide it with text written in an author-friendly markup language like Markdown, and it uses layouts and templates to build a website, saving the compiled HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to an output folder. You can tweak the appearance of pages, the data displayed on the site, and more. Bridgetown works best as part of a version-controlled repository powered by Git. You can centrally store the repository on services like GitHub, enabling you and others working on the site (as well as your hosting provider) to directly and securely access the latest site content and design files. During development, you might run Bridgetown from the command line on a local developer machine (or possibly a remote staging server). Once the content is ready for publication, you can commit the site codebase to a Git repository and use automated build tools to generate the final output and upload it to a server or CDN (Content Delivery Network). Netlify is a popular service, but there are many others. You can also simply copy the generated files contained in the output folder to any HTTP web server, and it should work just fine. 😊

Bridgetown is a Ruby-powered static site generator and full-stack framework that compiles text written in markup languages like Markdown into website files via layouts and templates, offering developers an efficient and enjoyable site-building experience.