we have built a number of blogs with spike
this plugin does markdown file parsing
however, we very strongly advise against storing content in markdown files, for many reasons
using a database (headless cms) is always a better option
there are adapters for a couple popular headless cms' for spike, such as contentful, dato, and wordpress
HellO @jescalan,
Yes I think I understand where you're going at, we been storing plenty of .md files for our blog using the /admin combined with netlify. So far it is manageable, but we are limited to many blogging features such as tagging, feeds, categorize, searching, and so on. I guess this is one of the major disadvantage of roots compare to Hexo & Jekyll. But we have had no regrets in choosing roots to back our cms sites for the past 2 yrs.
full featured, search, categories, etc
this site uses contentful as the back end
it can be done, just depends on the architecture
markdown files are just a bad way to store blog content
a much better way is a relational database
- How do I display post excerpts of posts on the home page? (as seen on: https://themes.gohugo.io/theme/hugo-theme-cactus-plus/)
- What's the code for tags page? (as seen on: https://themes.gohugo.io/theme/hugo-theme-cactus-plus/tags)
- How to add "about" under a post? (as seen on: https://addyosmani.com/blog/chrome-devtools-deepdive/)
are you aware that roots is unmaintained?
this is for roots
not sure how that even got confused haha
Hey Jeff, hope all is well with you. That Spartan site is really impressive, did you build it? My roots site (roaminglove.com) is going on 300+ posts now. My code is getting messy and the site is getting slower now that there are 4 URLs of JSON data (wordpress creates a new URL after every 100 posts). Do you think it would be pretty time consuming to switch my site from roots to spike and make it as legit as the Spartan site? I guess my other option would be to switch to wordpress as the front-end. Anyways, thank you for any insight that you could provide!
Hey Andrew! Yep I did. I think it would be a lot to time consuming for sure, but as you grow the post number it will become impossible to keep it fast while compiling everything. Switching to Hugo will give you some breathing room, and you could still use spike or roots for your assets, but eventually it will get slow as well
The big move is switching from compiling every post, to only compiling a limited number of recent posts, and fetching the rest on demand. This can be done with either build system, but is involved
Switching to straight word press would also solve the problem, but would make the site load slower and be more vulnerable to security issues
I've followed the steps here: https://medium.com/@_phzn/roots-a-delightful-static-site-generator-get-started-in-20-minutes-f7aaab43056d
but my public css folder still has scss files and not converted css files
spike is the successor of roots
I'm not seeing anything in the docs about it
Or is there a simpler way?
and its like, more than $100 to renew so i was on the fence about it
then i forgot about it
i should probably just host the site at a different domain thats not as expensive
for now, you can access it at http://roots.netlify.com/