Site redesign 2019

Posted 7. May 2019.

Before I decided to redesign this website, I wanted to have a simple blog system directly on this same site. No more additional blog system that needs to be installed and handled separately. I wanted to have a site simple enough to easily publish new content, but also flexible enough to adjust it to my needs.

Technologies

I settled with Gridsome, a super-fast Vue.js powered static site generator. Development with Gridsome was a breeze since it supports instant hot-reloading for any data change. Even for blog posts which are written in Markdown.

Deployment

The deployment process with Netlify is easy enough as adding a new site and configuring the build process by selecting the repository/branch and using the following settings:

Build command: gridsome build
Publish directory: dist

Netlify will then continouosly build the site when the specified branch is updated.

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