August 2018 Summaries

I've summarized the key points of the text for you: The author, who has been using WordPress as their go-to CMS for a decade, recently learned React and decided to rebuild their personal website from scratch using Gatsby. They chose Gatsby due to its simplicity and effectiveness in managing blogs. The author used Ryan Wiemer's gatsby-starter-gcn project as a starting point, which included features like contact forms, responsive design, and built-in SEO tools. They set up a Contentful account for content management and integrated it with the Gatsby site using API keys and personal tokens. After setting up the development environment, they deployed their website to Netlify, configuring build hooks and deployment triggers. The author now has a fully functional static website that automatically updates when new content is published in Contentful.

This tool promises to bring a Laravel-based approach to the world of PHP static site generators, but it doesn't provide a skeleton project like Sculpin does. Instead, users must create a normal project and add Jigsaw as a dependency before using its CLI. The default directory structure includes a config.php file with a configuration for collections, and a bootstrap.php file that hints at how events work. The tool uses Laravel Mix to handle assets, including Sass, and provides out-of-the-box support for webpack and Babel. Users can create a sample project, explore the default directory structure, and build their site using the Jigsaw CLI or npm's live reload capabilities provided by Browsersync. The tool also allows users to set up a basic blog with Markdown posts and collections, and integrates with Contentful to fetch content on demand. While it has some barebones configuration options, the developer behind Jigsaw is actively working to improve it and has already fixed several issues reported in the process of writing this article.