An Introduction to Static Site Generators for Drupalists and Static Site Show and Tell
summary
Compares three concrete workflows and what actually works: Jekyll expects markdown and has importers for Drupal 6/7 but no polished Drupal 8 path, supports incremental builds; Gatsby uses React + GraphQL, demonstrates the Umami demo via gatsby-source-drupal (JSON:API), pulls images locally and processes them with Gatsby image plugins for responsive output; Tome exports/imports Drupal as JSON and runs static builds with drush tome static; deployment automation uses Netlify webhook triggers — expect build times to range from seconds to minutes depending on site size.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction to static site generators
- 1:05What is a static site?
- 3:12Static site generator overview
- 5:27Why use static with Drupal?
- 7:15Jekyll for Drupalists
- 11:56Gatsby introduction
- 21:49Tome static site generator
- 26:47Automating deployments
- 29:16Challenges and limitations
- 31:42Static site show and tell
- 45:45Q&A and closing
