blog

The blog for Boot.dev, which can be found at https://blog.boot.dev.

A note on the license

You can read the license here. In short, we made this repo public to give students transparent visibility into our code for educational purposes. We do not allow you to distribute this code or content for your own purposes or for use in your own projects, and we retain the copyright to the code regardless of any contributions made.

Quick start development

Make sure you have yarn and the latest version of hugo installed on your local machine.

yarn install
yarn serve

Recommended VS code plugins

Spellchecker by Michael Vernier
Markdown All in One by Yu Zhang
Eslint by Microsoft

Check for broken links

In one terminal start the server on localhost:1313

yarn serve

Then run the check in another terminal:

make buildscripts && ./bin/linkcheck

It will print any issues.

Shortcodes

Use the following scripts to manage global shortcodes.

Build the scripts

make buildscripts

Add a SHORTCODE to all posts at the end of SECTION_NUMBER

./bin/addshorts SHORTCODE SECTION_NUMBER

Remove SHORTCODE from all posts

./bin/rmshorts SHORTCODE

Reset current ctas

./bin/rmshorts cta1
./bin/rmshorts cta2
./bin/rmshorts cta3

./bin/addshorts cta1 2
./bin/addshorts cta2 4
./bin/addshorts cta3 8

Resize images

Place original images go in the raw/ directory.

Create a directory static/img/X where X is the max width of the new images.

yarn image-min

This resizes all the images and places them in the new folder.

Delete the raw images.

Docx to markdown

Add .docx file to docx/ directory.

./scripts/docxmd.sh path_to_docx

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