Source code for the resulting demo website.
Talk slides can be found at https://github.com/danielfdsilva/talk--pxcamp17-staticsites

Harness the power of static sites

• Speaker: Daniel da Silva (Development Seed)
• Schedule: 10:00 30/09/2017 (Beta-i stage)

Static sites are nothing new. The internet started with static websites until we realized there was a better alternative and started building CMS that just grew bigger and more complex Now static sites are a reality again. They are the alternative: easy to manage, simple to edit, cheap to host. In this talk I'm going over building a simple static website and a set of tools to manage it: metalsmith to handle the site generation, prose.io as a powerful content editor, Github pages as a free hosting solution and cicleci for some tests (echo "All ok!" && exit 0 ;)) and to ensure everything gets deployed without the need to move a finger.