Unlock the Power of Static Sites with Svekyll
What is Svekyll?
Svekyll is a revolutionary static site generator that combines the simplicity of Jekyll with the incredible power of Svelte. With Svekyll, you can effortlessly apply themes with a single change to your config.yml file. Plus, it supports Tailwind CSS and daisyUI, making it easier to extend themes with less work than traditional CSS frameworks.
Getting Started with Svekyll
To follow along with this article, you’ll need:
- Basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- Your preferred terminal and code editor
Understanding Jekyll
Jekyll is an open-source static site generator that allows you to write code in markdown and transform it into layouts. When you create a template with contents, Jekyll generates a whole site of individual static HTML pages, which can be uploaded to any server of your choice.
Jekyll Use Cases
- Faster Page Delivery: Jekyll eliminates the need for your server to communicate with the database upon every request, resulting in faster page delivery to your users.
- Enhanced Security: With Jekyll, your app is more secure since your server doesn’t have to communicate with the database, reducing the risk of data loss in case of a security breach.
- Less Maintenance and Cost: Jekyll is a cost-effective way to host websites, requiring less maintenance and saving you money on maintenance fees.
- Blog Support: Jekyll is blog-aware, allowing you to write content in markdown.
Introducing Svelte
Svelte is a JavaScript tool for building UI components, similar to React, Angular, or Vue. However, unlike these libraries and frameworks, Svelte is a compiler that converts declarative code into imperative code that works with the native browser API, resulting in high-performance code in small packages.
Svekyll Use Cases
- Fast and Responsive Blogs: Svekyll blogs are incredibly fast and responsive, allowing you to build a vanilla blog in under five seconds.
- Complex Visualization: Svekyll uses Svelte for its static site UI, providing performance gains that come from a framework with no runtime, making interactive pages with many DOM elements and user interactions faster and more responsive.
- Simple Learning Curve: Svekyll has a simple learning curve, requiring only basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, as well as familiarity with Jekyll and Svelte.
- Faster Sites: Sites built with Svekyll are faster and have smaller bundle sizes, making them ideal for devices with limited processing power and slower network connections.
Svekyll Features
- YAML Front Matter: Svekyll uses YAML front matter to maintain metadata for a page and its contents, allowing you to customize any.md file using YAML front matter.
- Tailwind CSS: Svekyll supports Tailwind CSS, a utility-first CSS library for building custom user interfaces, which takes out unused classes and works seamlessly with Svekyll.
- daisyUI: Svekyll also supports daisyUI, a Tailwind CSS component library for creating clean HTML with component classes and customizable themes.
- Webmention: Webmention is a JSON feed and comment tool that you can embed in your blog, allowing you to display comments made over social services and providing a JSON feed.
- ExtraStatic Hosting: ExtraStatic provides one of the fastest ways to manage your page on the internet, offering first-class Svekyll hosting with optimized CI specifically for Svekyll.
- Search Engine Optimization: Svekyll optimizes every post and page for SEO by default, helping your site rank higher than many dynamic websites.
Take Your Static Site to the Next Level with Svekyll
With its powerful combination of Jekyll and Svelte, Svekyll is an incredible tool for building static sites that you should definitely try out. Leave us a comment below and let us know what you think!