README.md

Bridgetown Website README

Welcome to your new Bridgetown website! You can update this README file to provide additional context and setup information for yourself or other contributors.

Table of Contents

• Prerequisites
• Install
• Development
• Commands
• Deployment
• Contributing

Prerequisites

• GCC
• Make
• Ruby
  • >= 2.5
• Bridgetown Gem
  • gem install bundler bridgetown -N
• Node
  • >= 10.13
• Yarn

Install

cd bridgetown-site-folder
bundle install && yarn install

Learn more: Bridgetown Getting Started Documentation.

Development

To start your site in development mode, run yarn start and navigate to localhost:4000!

Use a theme, add some plugins, and/or run some automations to get started quickly.

Commands

# running locally
yarn start

# build & deploy to production
yarn deploy

# load the site up within a Ruby console (IRB)
bundle exec bridgetown console

Learn more: Bridgetown CLI Documentation

Deployment

You can deploy Bridgetown sites on "Jamstack" hosts (Netlify, Vercel, Render, etc.) or virtually any tranditional web server by simply building and copying the output folder to your HTML root.

Read the Bridgetown Deployment Documentation for more information.

Contributing

If repo is on GitHub:

1. Fork it
2. Clone the fork using git clone to your local development machine.
3. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
4. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
5. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
6. Create a new Pull Request