wintersmith-practice

Practiced wercker deployment of Wintersmith builds

Tech

Wercker, Wintersmith, Jade, Markdown

Niceties

Markdown Content, Automated gh-pages.

Takeaways

• Wintersmith gives a template from which you can easily make a blog with .md files.
• install with npm install -g wintersmith
• start with wintersmith new [project name]
• wintersmith preview from master branch to see full site pre-build.
• The wercker deploy at gh-pages works by running wintersmith build and pushing the /build directory (Which contains the static HTML and associated CSS) to the gh-pages branch
• wercker depends on creating and linking an 'app' on their site to a repo such as this one. Whenever master branch updates, wercker will run the wercker.yml file, much like a Grunt or Gulp process
  • wercker 'steps' are like npm modules in which you have to define one that either exists in marketplace or author your own.

Cons

• .yml files cannot have tabs.
• wercker build messes up with pathing for CSS files, etc. searches vtange.github.io/main.css instead of vtange.github.io/repo-name/main.css
• too blog-like. generates pages out of .jade and markdown(.md) files. If you're going to make mulitple unique microsites, might as well do it via Express.