Matteo Borgato Blog

A medium inspired Jekyll blog theme. The basic idea came from the Ghost theme Readium 2.0

Features

General features:

• Vanilla Javascript 🍦
• Browserify
• npm
• Sass + Bourbon
• Gulp.js
• Jekyll
• Ruby
• Dropbox as a Database (JSON files - WIP)

Ruby gems:

• Redcarpet (Markdown parser)
• s3_website (push generated _site folder to S3)

Configuration

The main settings happen inside of the _config.yml

Prerequisites

Ruby 2.2.3, rubygem and npm are required:

rbenv local 2.2.3 gem install bundle bundle install npm i

Commands - development

Watch changes - browser-sync:

$ npm run start

Then visit http://localhost:4000/

Build assets and _site folder:

$ npm run build

Publish website

$ npm run deploy

TODO:

• Gzip js and deflate CSS using gulp-pako
• automate gzipped assets deployment to S3