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Tech Stack

Greenwood uses a variety of open source JavaScript tools to help faciliate development and production building of Greenwood projects. By putting all these tools together and configuring them for you, Greenwood helps you focus more on what matters; building your project. Greenwood takes care of the performance and optimizations for you and provides static build output that you can host on any web server or cloud host, be it Netlify, S3 / CloudFront, Express, Apache, etc. It's entirely up to you and what fits your workflow the best.

NodeJS

For development, Greenwood requires NodeJS (LTS) to be available on the command line. This allows us (and you!) to tap into all the amazing web development tools and libraries available on npm.

To pre-render a site, we use puppeteer.

Unified

For processing markdown, Greenwood taps into the unified ecosystem taking advantage of and supporting tools like remark and rehype

Browsers

Web standards like Web Components and ES Modules, coupled with network standards like HTTP caching, makes the browser a great platform not only for the browsing experience, but for the developer experience as well. Philosophies adopted by Greenwood like bundleless development take full advantage of what the platform offers, so as to enable rapid development as well as ensure performant and optimized sites for users.

Rollup

Greenwood makes use of Rollup as part of build phase to optimize all the HTML / CSS and JavaScript for a given project. This affords Greenwood the ability to bundle, minify and otherwise prepare the site for final deployement in the best way possible based on the code you've written.

Puppeteer

When pre-rendering content for Web Components, Greenwood makes use of Puppeteer as part of build phase to generate all the appropriate static HTML and CSS.

Development

To assist in the project's development and maintenance, we also use these tools: