Turn static HTML/CSS into a blog with CMS using the JAMStack
Skills:
Tool Use & Function Calling90%Prompt Craft80%Prompt Systems Engineering70%LLM Foundations60%
๐ป My DevProjects project: https://codemntr.io/dev-projects (includes a link to starting template and my final solution)
๐ฅ Codementor: https://codemntr.io/mentor
In this video, we're building out my solution to the Devmentor challenge that I created! We'll be taking a static HTML/CSS project that I created, hooking it up with Eleventy, and then using GitHub to get it up onto Netlify, and finally integrated Netlify CMS!
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Starting template I used: https://github.com/kevin-powell/JAMStack-blog-starter
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Eleventy documentation: https://www.11ty.dev/docs/
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11ty Rocks: https://11ty.rocks/
โ Timestamps
00:00 - Introduction
01:56 - DevProjects
03:01 - The starting files I'm using
06:22 - Initializing the project and installing 11ty
09:43 - 11ty config file
16:32 - Creating header and footer template files
29:37 - Generating content for the Blog page
40:05 - Fixing the date formatting
44:08 - Creating the template for individual articles
48:10 - Featured article section
54:45 - Getting the project online
59:50 - Adding the CMS
1:18:38 - Using the CMS
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Chapters (13)
Introduction
1:56
DevProjects
3:01
The starting files I'm using
6:22
Initializing the project and installing 11ty
9:43
11ty config file
16:32
Creating header and footer template files
29:37
Generating content for the Blog page
40:05
Fixing the date formatting
44:08
Creating the template for individual articles
48:10
Featured article section
54:45
Getting the project online
59:50
Adding the CMS
1:18:38
Using the CMS
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