Sam Mullins : xStatic - static site generation for Umbraco

This month we'll be welcoming to Sam Mullins talk about his new package xStatic which simplifies static site generation for Umbraco.

Agenda:

• Welcome & Introductions
• Umbraco News & Upcoming Events
• Main Talk: xStatic - static site generation for Umbraco
• Break
• Social

Sam works for Bournemouth based digital agency Redweb. Despite currently working primarily with Sitecore, he has used Umbraco for over 10 years and recently decided to use it for his own personal site. As well as open-sourcing a couple of Umbraco projects Sam has also released open-source plugins for the photo editor CaptureOne and also made a covid safe party game, "The Imposter".

** Main Talk **
Sam Mullins: Using and Extending xStatic

In order to save on hosting costs, Sam created xStatic for Umbraco, a completely free and open-source static site generator that can be configured to deploy a Umbraco website to Netlify, GitHub pages or a traditional server using FTP.

In this session, we'll briefly go over how to set up xStatic on your site and talk through the different deployers and transformers that are built into the product. We'll then create a new custom deployer and transformer to show how you can easily extend xStatic to fit your needs.