Bridgetown Competitors:

Bridgetown: SSG & SSR

SSR is Powered by Roda

• The Routing Tree Web Toolkit, created by Jeremy Evans
• Simplicity: Roda is designed to be simple, both internally and externally, reducing cognitive overhead.
• Usability: Roda uses a routing tree. At any point during routing, it allows you to operate on the current request.
• Productivity: Roda makes it easy to develop applications quickly.

Roda route blocks:

class App < Roda
  route do |r|
    # /hello branch
    r.on "hello" do
      # Set variable for all routes in /hello branch
      @greeting = 'Hello'
      # GET /hello/world request
      r.get "world" do
        "#{@greeting} world!"
      end
      # /hello request
      r.is do
        # GET /hello request
        r.get do
          "#{@greeting}!"
        end
        # POST /hello request
        r.post do
          @name = r.params["name"]
          puts "#{@greeting} #{@name}!"
          r.redirect
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

Roda + Bridgetown in action

_routes/items/[slug].erb

---<%
# route: /items/:slug
r.get do
  item_id, *item_sku = params[:slug].split("-")
  item_sku = item_sku.join("-")
  render_with data: {
    layout: :page,
    title: "Item Page",
    item_id: item_id,
    item_sku: item_sku
  }
end
%>---
<p><strong>Item ID:</strong> <%= data.item_id %></p>
<p><strong>Item SKU:</strong> <%= data.item_sku %></p>

Bridgetown SSR / CRUD

• Progressively enhance your static/public content with all the extra bits.

  • Forms
  • E-commerce
  • Paywalls
  • Dashboards
  • Digital Products
  • Anything which doesn't map cleanly to static builds.

• See how far you can push this stack before reaching for “The Big Kahuna” (Rails?)

• You can always rewrite your backend later and still use Bridgetown for the frontend. I know this because Jekyll + Rails installs used to be my jam!