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>.