As with all Jigsaw sites, configuration settings can be found in config.php
; you can update the variables in that file with settings specific to your site. You can also add new configuration variables there to use across your site; take a look at the Jigsaw documentation to learn more.
// config.php
return [
'baseUrl' => 'https://my-awesome-jigsaw-site.com/',
'production' => false,
'siteName' => 'My Site',
'siteDescription' => 'Give your blog a boost with Jigsaw.',
...
];
You can write your content using a variety of file types. By default, this starter template expects your content to be located in the source/_posts/
folder.
The top of each content page contains a YAML header that specifies how it should be rendered. The title
attribute is used to dynamically generate HTML title
and OpenGraph tags for each page. The extends
attribute defines which parent Blade layout this content file will render with (e.g. _layouts.post
will render with source/_layouts/post.blade.php
), and the section
attribute defines the Blade "section" that expects this content to be placed into it.
---
extends: _layouts.post
section: content
title: Getting Started
date: 2018-12-25
description: Getting started with the Jigsaw blog starter template
cover_image: /assets/img/post-cover-image-2.png
featured: true
---
Any assets that need to be compiled (such as JavaScript, Less, or Sass files) can be added to the source/_assets/
directory, and Laravel Mix will process them when running npm run local
or npm run production
. The processed assets will be stored in /source/assets/build/
(note there is no underscore on this second assets
directory).
Then, when Jigsaw builds your site, the entire /source/assets/
directory containing your built files (and any other directories containing static assets, such as images or fonts, that you choose to store there) will be copied to the destination build folders (build_local
, on your local machine).
Files that don't require processing (such as images and fonts) can be added directly to /source/assets/
.
Read more about compiling assets in Jigsaw using Laravel Mix.
Now that you’ve edited your configuration variables and know how to customize your styles and content, let’s build the site.
# build static files with Jigsaw
./vendor/bin/jigsaw build
# compile assets with Laravel Mix
# options: dev, staging, production
npm run dev