Moving from Hugo to Bridgetown

The first iteration of Kakiyaga.com was created in Hugo, the whole site looks something like this:

That was pretty much it! It didn’t take me long to setup and it served it’s purpose as a landing site for Kakiyaga.

Now Hugo is great and everything but I really wanted to be able to do this in Ruby! I looked around and I know about Jekyll. But I was looking for something more modern and I stumbled upon Bridgetown!

The tagline for Bridgetown was:

A next-generation, progressive site generator & fullstack framework, powered by Ruby.

I was sold and decided to setup Kakiyaga in Bridgetown. Now I won’t go into the details of how to set it all up, they have a great set of documentation that you can go through but what I would like to point out is that now I have an easy and accessible way to publish content for myself. I also managed to integrate TailwindCSS / DaisyUI to the site so I have access to all the components I need to make the site look great. I’m not a frontend developer so I need all the help I can get!

That’s not to say that there I didn’t run into any issues while setting it up, hot reloading does not quite work out of the box with TailwindCSS, I figure that is something that I’ll need to look into.

But I’m looking forward to writing more and updating this site using Bridgetown.