Tropical
Fast, mostly-just-HTML static sites with islands of client-side JS. Click the "Use this template" button
Overview:
The Tropical template repo is a resource for building static sites. Users can start by clicking the "Use this template" button to create their own repository, or they can refer to the documentation for more information on building sites with Tropical. Once the site is ready, it can be deployed to Netlify.
Features:
- Easy set up with "Use this template" button
- Supports npm, yarn, and pnpm for dependency installation
- Development server with hot reload at localhost:3000
- Static site generation using yarn build command
- Scaffold new pages with yarn page command
- Scaffold new components with yarn component command
- Comprehensive documentation
- Open for bug reports, discussions, and feature requests
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- Vite
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- MDX
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- Netlify
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- Rollup
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- Storybook
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