How Would I Extend Virga?

Modification ideas for Virga #

Virga is based on Hylia without Netlify CMS bit and few modifications (I did wrote about differences between the two).

Virga is pretty much ready for starting a blog, I think. I don’t own a blog, but I’m thinking about using Virga on this site called Frontend Weekly Tokyo which was build using Hylia.

At Frontend Weekly Tokyo, I’ve done some modifications on Hylia. So these are good candidates to extend Virga, too.

• Monetization through service called Coil. I choose this because Coil is currently only provider for Web Monetization spec.
• Webmentions, Webmentions is working at Frontend Weekly Tokyo. I’ve followed this Max Böck’s tutorial on setting up Webmentions on Eleventy. Very detailed and helpful.
• Auto Tweet using Netlify functions. Netlify provides AWS Lambda as Netlify Functions, so you achieve lots of things via “serverless”. On Frontend Weekly Tokyo, Netlify Functions does Tweet when a post went public. Again, I’ve stolen this Max Böck’s tutorial.

IndieWeb #

Eleventy is very good at practicing IndieWeb since using it means you already own your content.

Virga surely not covering every aspect of IndieWeb but does offer a starting points.

Place for your content #

Netlify is good place to serve your content.
Virga has been configured to deploy to Netlify.
Netlify has DNS service, so you can set up your custom domain very easily.

Add info about yourself #

Virga utilizes rel-author to help provide authorship information.

Virga is flexible when it comes to authorship. Any numbers of writer can can authorship via front matter data.

---
title: How Would I Extend Virga?
date: 2020-03-07
author: Yuya Saito
desc: Virga is a starter kit for who love to extend after all.
---

If you omit author in front matter, Virga uses data from src/_data/site.json.

You could dig really deep on IndieWeb with Eleventy and Virga in that direction.