About
I'm Werner Siemens . Dad, husband, developer and self-proclaimed beer expert. I put Candy together as a learning experiment. I wanted to push out a few small websites but didn't want the hassle of managing servers [1]. This led me to check out static site generators. I looked at a bunch of SSGs [2] and settled on Eleventy. It just made the most sense to me. YMMV.
I knew I wanted to have Bootstrap and JQuery available for my projects, so I figured I'd make a template heirarchy that included them. From there, I just kept adding more pieces that I wanted included by default. I leaned on the Eleventy docs and the starter projects by Phil Hawksworth and Zach Leatherman to learn by example [3], and Candy was the result. Feel free to use it. Feel even more free to submit PRs to make it better.
Build Something with Candy
A quick read of the blog articles on this site would get you up and running in the same spirit of learning by example that I employed. I'd suggest the following order:
Image Credits
All Candy images are from Unsplash. Credit to the following artists: Sylvanus Urban, Joanna Kosinska, rawpixel, Patrick Fore and Analia Baggiano.