We need new website tech

[janl]

Our current website is built with Jekyll. Keeping that maintained locally is a pain, especially as a not-a-ruby-dev.

I suggest we switch to something else, JS-based.

The one thing Jekyll has going for it is that it was extremely stable. We rarely have had to update stuff when new versions came out over the span of over 10 years.

I would like to retain that.

What are good website tools that we can easily adopt coming from Jekyll that don’t create major maintenance burdens down the line?

[aufdemrand]

I don't have any personal experience with Astro itself, but from what I know it seems like it would be a good fit for replacing a Jekyll site if you're trying to stay within the JS ecosystem.

[alxndrsn]

I've used astro a fair bit, and it's great. But I haven't used it enough to recommend it as long-term stable.

On the jekyll front, @janl have you tried:

npm run dev-site-with-docker

?

I also found Ruby a hassle, but this solved it for me.

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pouchdb/package.json

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"dev-site-with-docker": "docker build --file docs-dev.Dockerfile --progress=plain . && docker run -it --rm --volume $PWD/docs:/pouchdb-docs/docs -p 4000:4000 $(docker build --quiet .)",

[alxndrsn]

npm run dev-site-with-docker

Oops, looks broken! Fix at #9137

[naton]

I've migrated a multilingual Jekyll site to 11ty and could be available for questions if you go that route.

[jelmerdemaat]

Depending on desired planning, I could help you out building it in either Astro or Eleventy, both are great.

[mb21]

I'll throw Mastro's hat in the ring. Would be happy to help migrating the site.

[ccoenen]

If you can wait a little while longer, I would observe how https://zensical.org/ turns out.

It is developed by the same people as mkdocs-material, and that was excellent.

The first publicly released version was just two weeks ago but I have high hopes for it.

[alxndrsn]

I had a quick look at eleventy, and it looks like it's almost a drop-in replacement: #9146

Maybe worth pursuing?