Deploying Static Sites generated with Swift and Publish with Gitlab CI/CD
By the end of this tutorial, you will be able to build and deploy a static website generated with Swift on Gitlab Pages with a CI/CD pipeline.
I have been using Publish, a static site generator for Swift developers, by John Sundell in recent months to generate JavaScript-free websites with just HTML and CSS from Markdown files.
Even though there are many static site generators available on various toolchains, I really enjoy using Swift from top to bottom for as much of any project I am working on. To that effect, Publish is a great solution and it works as intended. Publish uses Ink, a Markdown parser written in in Swift, and Plot, a domain-specific language (DSL) for writing type-safe HTML, XML and RSS in Swift, which was recently updated to build HTML components in a more SwiftUI like fashion.
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