Usually, I'm not one to jump on the hype train of new tooling and frameworks. However, Astro sparked my interest. In its most basic form, it's a framework to build websites. However, it turns out to be a bit more than that! The team behind Astro took...
Today we'll be making a fully static website JavaScript search. Meaning we won't be using any additional software like Lunr, Algolia, or Elasticsearch to power our search. Yesterday we made a great start by creating a JSON endpoint with all our posts...
I'll let you in on a little secret while writing this article; I'm also working on this site and finding a neat, low JS alternative to a search function. Don't get me wrong, Lunr and Algolia are great options, but I would like to keep my website as l...
In today's article, you will learn how to add a sitemap to your Eleventy website. A sitemap is an essential part of helping search engines understand your website's structure and one of the quickest ways to optimize your site SEO wise. With a sitemap...
We had an introduction into what are Webmentions, now let's put this to use and implement them on this blog. Note: I used Max Böck's article and his code to implement them on my blog. The Webmentions will look like this: Step 1. Signing up for web...
Finally, I made the switch to Webmentions, not because I hated comments, but it just didn't serve the platform. You might be wondering, what is he talking about? Let me explain in some more detail. What are Webmentions? Webmentions are an open stand...
