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Getting Started with Jekyll

This integration guide follows the Quick Start Guide and assumes you have you have fully completed the "Hands-on" path. You should be able to consume the API by browsing the URL http://localhost:1337/api/restaurants.

If you haven't gone through the Quick Start Guide, the way you request a Strapi API with Jekyll remains the same except that you do not fetch the same content.

Create a Jekyll app​

Be sure to have Jekyll installed on your computer.

jekyll new jekyll-app

Configure Jekyll​

Jekyll is a Static Site Generator and will fetch your content from Strapi at build time. You need to configure Jekyll to communicate with your Strapi application.

  • Add jekyll-strapi to your Gemfile
group :jekyll_plugins do
gem "jekyll-feed", "~> 0.12"
gem "jekyll-strapi"
end
  • Add jekyll-strapi to your plugins in _config.yml.
plugins:
- jekyll-feed
- jekyll-strapi
  • Add the configuration of Strapi at the end of the _config.yml.
strapi:
# Your API endpoint (optional, default to http://localhost:1337)
endpoint: http://localhost:1337
collections:
restaurants:
type: restaurants

categories:
type: categories
  • Run bundle install to install your gems.
bundle install

GET Request your collection type​

Execute a GET request on the restaurant collection type in order to fetch all your restaurants.

Be sure that you activated the find permission for the restaurant collection type.

Example​

./_layouts/home.html

---
layout: default
---

<div class="home">
<h1 class="page-heading">Restaurants</h1>
{%- if strapi.collections.restaurants.size > 0 -%}
<ul>
{%- for restaurant in strapi.collections.restaurants -%}
<li>
{{ restaurant.name }}
</li>
{%- endfor -%}
</ul>
{%- endif -%}
</div>

Execute a GET request on the category collection type in order to fetch a specific category with all the associated restaurants.

Be sure that you activated the findOne permission for the category collection type.

Example​

./layouts/index.html

---
layout: default
---

<div class="home">
{%- if strapi.collections.categories[0].restaurants.size > 0 -%}
<h1 class="page-heading">{{ strapi.collections.categories[0].name }}</h1>
<ul>
{%- for restaurant in strapi.collections.categories[0].restaurants -%}
<li>
{{ restaurant.name }}
</li>
{%- endfor -%}
</ul>
{%- endif -%}
</div>

Run your application with:

bundle exec jekyll serve

We can generate pages for each category.

  • Tell Jekyll to generate a page for each category by updating the _config.yml file with the following:
strapi:
# Your API endpoint (optional, default to http://localhost:1337)
endpoint: http://localhost:1337
# Collections, key is used to access in the strapi.collections
# template variable
collections:
# Example for a "posts" collection
restaurants:
# Collection name (optional). Used to construct the url requested. Example: type `foo` would generate the following url `http://localhost:1337/foo`.
type: restaurants

categories:
# Collection name (optional). Used to construct the url requested. Example: type `foo` would generate the following url `http://localhost:1337/foo`.
type: categories
permalink: categories/:name
layout: category.html
# Generate output files or not (default: false)
output: true
  • Create a _layouts/category.html file that will display the content of each one of your category:
<h1>{{ page.document.name }}</h1>
<ul>
{%- for restaurant in page.document.restaurants -%}
<li>
{{ restaurant.name }}
</li>
{%- endfor -%}
</ul>

After building your application, you'll be able to see a category folder in your _site folder.

You can find your restaurant categories by browsing http://localhost:4000/category/<name-of-category>.