Middleman

Hand-crafted frontend development

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Anyone still using Stylus? Planning to remove from v5.0 otherwise.

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@villek We support Sass/Scss out of the box, no JS needed.

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@ggarron Very cool. If you're interested in sharing back into the unreleased (and outdated) one we have on GitHub, that'd be awesome: https://t.co/wLXpN2PLcm

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Taking the forum down today to upgrade the server. Hope to be back online by end of day.

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@TheNotoriousSDE With lots of JS you'll have to bring your own JS tooling (webpack, etc) or avoid all that and use native JS modules. Probably same between v4 and v5

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@chufucious You might need to tell the markdown parser to stop being so clever with quote usage: https://t.co/5X6lSsJP82

set :markdown, :smartypants => false

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Poking my head up to say:

1. GitHub Sponsors is pretty cool. If you sponsor, Microsoft will match, which is helpful when I need to pay some server costs: https://t.co/P0EulcTDqY

2. Please reach out if you're someone who wants to help. There's no core team, it's just @tdreyno.

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@hugowiz @AtomEditor You're welcome. Great work!

[Abubakar Siddiq Ango @sarki247]

Make collaboration easier on your #JamStack website with our new Static Site editor introduced in @gitlab v12.10. It currently supports @middlemanapp with others coming soon. Check it out: https://t.co/s4eWkvAIHv

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@cabgfx @andrewmcodes @bridgetownrb Popping in to the thread to say:

A: Bridgetown rules
B: Sometimes projects accomplish their goals and are stable. I'll always fix breaking bugs, but the infinity treadmill of new features isn't that appealing after 13 years. Lemme know if you're stuff is broken, I'll fix it.

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@MWardsky i18n hasn't seen a lot of change. Should work as it did in v4.

Issues can go here: https://t.co/l3dDnrlbCr

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In testing Middleman v5 beta's incremental build system, we're seeing up to 5x speed improvement on VERY large sites (thousands of pages).

Please test it out so we feel confident launching!

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@steveparrynz If you have lots of extensions, they may not be updated (and will likely lag behind the official extensions).

Spockets is nearly dead. So, v5 isn't a great fit for that.

Otherwise, I'd love if you ran it (master) on your repo & reported any issue so we can better write docs.

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@j4lenn It's a huge change, causing the final release to take a while. Please open tickets and regressions if you find them. Timing before/after are also helpful.

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@bellanger_q We do this on the Middleman site itself, using the Redcarpet engine: https://t.co/FH0wM2DlMO

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@bellanger_q Ticks are not part of the original Markdown spec. That format is commonly called "Github-flavored Markdown." Middleman support multiple libraries, but you must select one that supports GH-flavor.

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Want to use Github Actions with Middleman? Here's an example: https://t.co/swAESU93eS

Middleman v5 will ship with an official Docker image. Seems reasonable to make an Action at the same time!

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Make sure your Gemfiles are locked to 4.x, because 5.x is right around the corner and will likely take a little time before all 3rd party extensions are compatible (mostly just a gem spec version range update on their end).

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@jamstackparis @algolia We’d love to see slides or video if that happens.