Behind the Scenes with Plenti - A Svelte Static Site Generator

Hi JAMsters!

Due to COVID-19, we will be hosting this meetup virtually on Tues, February 23rd at 6 p.m. EST!

This month, we have Jim Fisk, who will be giving a talk on Plenti (https://plenti.co/), a Static Site Generator (SSG) for Svelte websites.

JavaScript is more essential to the web today than ever before, but supporting a complex toolchain can get in your way and make you less productive. Plenti (https://github.com/plentico/plenti) takes a new approach to building JS apps by cutting out the bundlers, hitting the compiler directly in V8, and building scaffolding in Go to give an extremely fast and consistent developer experience. It uses Svelte templates on the frontend so you get a reactive component architecture that's lightweight and fast. The build process is written in Go so it runs very quickly and you get real-time updates when making changes. You don't need any tools or configuration to get started; NodeJS and NPM are optional. In this talk, Jim, the primary developer for the project, will walk through the architecture choices and explain how Plenti works at a high level. Then he'll discuss plans for future releases and take questions / feedback from the group.

Jim Fisk is a Framingham, MA based web developer and the creator of Plentico. He started the JAMstack Boston meetup in 2017 where he has enjoyed teaching workshops on topics such as Hugo and NetlifyCMS while learning from others about new tools that make up this rapidly evolving ecosystem. He has led production builds using a variety of JAMstack technology, including Jekyll to build budget.boston.gov and Gatsby to create theiagroupinc.com. Jim is passionate about lowering barriers for new folks learning tech and founded a company called Jantcu LLC in 2015 that's focused entirely on free and open source software. Connect with him @jimfisk his company @Jantcutech and this project @plentico on twitter!

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As always, the intent of this meetup is to collaborate, network, learn, grow and most importantly have fun! Here's the agenda:

6:00 - 6:15 Welcome, virtual networking

6:15 - 6:25 Opening remarks

6:25 - 7:00 Jim Fisk - Svelte Static Sites with Plenti

7:00 - 7:30 Questions / General Discussion

Also, just a reminder that we now have our own dedicated Slack channel under the BostonJS Slack group! For those who have already joined the BostonJS Slack group, you can join # _jamstack_meetup where we will be posting meetup updates and general JAMstack-related discussions in the future. If you haven't joined the BostonJS Slack group yet, you can join by clicking this link: https://boston-javascript-slackin.herokuapp.com

Look forward to seeing everyone!

• the JAMstack Boston Team