Getting Started

This section is an overview of Abell Documentation and will help you navigate to the page you need.

Abell is a JavaScript based static-site-generator to help you build fast and secure websites from static data like JSON, Markdown, or CMS. Check out Why Abell section on our Home Page for more info.

Approaching Documentation

If you want to quickly get blog running, check out Creating Blog from Starter Themes

To learn Abell, you can approach this documentation in various ways

If you prefer to learn by doing, check out Tutorial to Create Your Portfolio from Scratch
If you prefer to learn from concepts, try A Conceptual Guide of Abell.
If you prefer to learn by playing around the code, you would like our Abell Playground on CodeSandbox ↗ .

Requirements

Abell requires Node.js 8 or higher installed.

Though it is not "required", if you're using VSCode, it is recommended to have Abell Language Features Extension for VSCode for syntax highlighting of .abell files.

Terms used in Documentation

Abell Components - Abell Components are the .abell files with content wrapped inside <AbellComponent> tag. Check out Abell Components Guide for more information. (Usually named as CamelCased.abell)
Abell Pages - Abell Pages are close to HTML, they have <html> tag and these files eventually become .html page in output. (Follow lowercase.abell format)
In documentation, you will find reference of npx command which comes along with the Node.js and NPM. It executes the scripts directly.

Plugins and Libraries

We got some plugins and libraries to make the job even easier!

Check out List of Plugins and Libraries of Abell →

Want to build your own plugin? Check out our blog on How to Build Abell Plugins
Already built a plugin? Add it to the list at abelljs/abell-website/tree/main/content/plugins/index.md

Changelog

From v0.4.0, we follow Semantic-Versioning which means, there will not be any breaking change until v1.0.0.

Check out Changelog of Abell.

Contributing

We are an open-source project and completely depend on open-source community for contribution, check out our Contributing to Abell Guide for more information on how to contribute.

Contribute to this page ↗