Blogging with Babashka

The prolific @borkdude has inspired me to take a shot at blogging with babashka. I am using his approach as described here.

I've tweaked the code a bit so that I can run bb watch which

• starts an http server on port 8080 by default
• watches and compiles markdown files to html
• ensures html files have live.js loaded

live.js polls the server with head requests and looks at headers like etag, last-modified and content-type to determine if the page should be reloaded.

It was interesting to learn that the babashka filewatcher pod is written in Rust.

This blog's source is here.

Published: 2021-12-14