Personal site readme

This is a very simple instance of Bridgetown, meant to publish a personal website. There is a custom theme with a dark/light switch and responsive scss.

This theme uses erb templating language to create the layout and vanilla JS.

Bridgetown General Table of Contents

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

Prerequisites

• GCC
• Make
• Ruby
  • >= 2.7
• Bridgetown Gem
  • gem install bridgetown -N
• Node
  • >= 12
• 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 bin/bridgetown start and navigate to localhost:4000!

Use a theme or add some plugins to get started quickly.

Commands

# running locally
bin/bridgetown start

# build & deploy to production
bin/bridgetown deploy

# load the site up within a Ruby console (IRB)
bin/bridgetown console

Learn more: Bridgetown CLI Documentation

Deployment

You can deploy Bridgetown sites on hosts like Render or Vercel as well as traditional web servers by simply building and copying the output folder to your HTML root.

Read the Bridgetown Deployment Documentation for more information.