A minimalistic Jamstack approach for website authoring and publishing via VSCode

μJam

What is it ?

μJamallows to use Visual Studio Code as a lightweight authoring and publishing tool for small to medium websites.

Greek letter 'μ' is pronounced 'my' as in micro , 'mu' as in 'music' or 'mee' according to modern Greek . In that context here it simply means tiny or minimalistic .

That 'Jam' in μJam comes from Jamstack and means the collection of the three attributes

• J avaScript
• A PI
• M arkup

It is mostly about the creation of static web pages or serverless websites and you might want to read more about that modern way to build lightweight web pages here and there .

What can I do with it ?

If you want to

• create a small to medium website
• write down the contents of your web pages in that easy to learn and use Markdown language
• publish your web-pages to your GitHub repository and GitHub pages
• do that all from inside free Visual Studio Code ( vscode ) editor

then the minimalistic and powerful approach of μJam might convice you.

Examples ?

Some templates are here ...

• microjam-simple – A simple website template for μJam
• microjam-tufte – A Tufte Style Template for μJam
• microjam-docs – A documentation theme for μjam with sidebar
• microjam-g2 – A theme for μjam + g2

Why yet another Jamstack Approach ?

μJamis meant to be a low code authoring and web publishing tool for scientists, engineers and students, which ...

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But as you can easily leave that math , vector graphics and research paper stuff out, it may serve your non-academic publishing wishes also well.

Interested ... ? So read on ...