Workshop

Build a powerful static website using Lektor (Spanish)

Location:

Room 2

Date and time:

Sunday 11, 11:00

Authors:

Summary:

Building simple websites, like a blog, or a personal website do not require an interactive experience, using an static site generator like Lektor you could achieve the same functionality, without worrying about updates, security, performance, or cost; and deploy your site for free in Github Pages.

Description:

The idea of this workshop is to create an static website using Lektor, while exploring its features

1. What’s Lektor? Lektor is a flexible and powerful static content management system for building complex and beautiful websites out of flat files.

2. Why a static website could be a better decision? (Pro/Cons) Static websites are safer, use fewer resources, and doesn’t have vendor and platform lock-in (when data can’t be exported).

3. Why Lektor? Lektor has flexibility buid-in in its core, it’s multipurpose, a big difference between it and other static generators

4. Structure of a Lektor project

Creating a basic site
Exploring Lektor datamodels: Lekotr datamodels adds flexibility allowing to create complex sites (making Lektor general-purpose, and not only for blogs like other static generators)
Exploring Lektor template system (jinja2)

5. Deploying

Deploy your website using github pages
Automatize the deployment with a continuum integration system (Travis-CI)

6. Themes

How Lektor theme system works: Its allows to extend not only the templates but also the datamodels
Installing a theme
Basics for developing a theme

7. Plugins

How plugin system works
How to install a plugin,
Creating a simple Lektor plugin
The Lektor API

Resources:

https://github.com/rlaverde/pycon-demo