Building a Joomla site with Joomlatools Pages - Joomladay USA 2021

Joomlatools Pages is an easy to use page generator for Joomla inspired by the ideas and concepts of flat-file CMS systems and static site generators. Make no mistake Pages is not a static site generator (SSG), Pages works in a dynamic, lazy and smart way. A page is dynamically generated, cached and only re-generated when its content or layout has changed.

Created by Joomla co-founder Johan Janssens Pages makes developing Joomla sites easy and fun. It gives you total control over your data and your layouts, with near zero additional extensions, and provides massive speed gains out of the box. Sounds too good to be true? This presentation will show you how.

We will build a simple Joomla site with a frontpage, a blog and a contact form in 40min and show you how Pages can:

- Render articles with custom layouts and using custom fields without needing a CCK extension
- Create modules on the fly and display it anywhere without needing Modules Anywhere
- Create search engine optimised URL's without needing a SEF extension
- Receive form submissions without needing a form extension

To top it off we will show how Pages makes the site lightning fast with the flip of switch.

If you like to get started already, check out Pages on Github and read the Pages release announcement, for questions jump on to the community forums.

- Event: https://jdayusa.com/sessions-2022/sessions-2021
- Video: https://youtu.be/NRStpcyliZ0

Transcript

1. http://www.joomlatools.com/developer @joomlatools Everything is a Remix It’s not where you take things from —
 it’s where you take them too
2. Question If Joomla would be about food, would it be:
 a. A cookbook
 
 b. A soup kitchen
 
 c. A restaurant
4. Standing on the shoulders of giants https://www.everythingisaremix.info
5. 1 The GPL is not just a legal document, it’s much more, it’s a creativity manifesto embracing and perpetuating the idea that everything is a 
 remix through the freedom of use, study modify and copy it provides.
6. Joomla means “all together …”
7. Framing Joomlatools Pages
8. 2 Joomlatools Pages is a just-in-time page generator combining the power of a dynamic web application, with the performance of a static site generator. Pages is not a static site generator (SSG), Pages works in a dynamic, lazy and smart way. A page is dynamically generated, cached and only re-generated when its content or layout has changed. 
 
 Pages is datasource agnostic, you can use any kind of data source, for example you could use, a Joomla component, a database table, a headless CMS like Strapi, or even a webservice like Airtable or Google Sheets. From: https://github.com/joomlatools/joomlatools-pages/wiki
9. 3 Joomlatools Pages provides a no-code MVC Model Template
10. Learnings from the past …
11. 4 Locality of Behaviour (LoB) 
 "The primary feature for easy maintenance is locality: Locality is that characteristic of source code that enables a programmer to understand that source by looking at only a small portion of it." -- Richard Gabriel 
 
 The LoB Principle: The behaviour of a code unit should be as obvious as possible by looking only at that unit of code 
 In as much as it is possible, and in balance with other concerns, Pages strives to make the behaviour of a code element obvious on inspection.
12. 5 Rendering a list of weblink in Joomlatools Pages Features • Single file • Dynamic • Separated logic • Any-datasource • Copy-paste • Cacheable • Itemid
13. 6 Further reading 
 1. Framing Pages - A just-in-time page generator 
 https://github.com/joomlatools/joomlatools-pages/discussions/655 
 
 2. Framing Pages - Standing on the shoulders of components 
 https://github.com/joomlatools/joomlatools-pages/discussions/670 

14. It’s demo time
15. Turning this ….
16. … into this
17. Johan Janssens
 Joomla Co-Founder / Former Lead Developer http://about.me/johanjanssens @johanjanssens johanjanssens johanjanssens
18. More Info http://twitter.com/joomlatools http://github.com/joomlatools http://facebook.com/joomlatools http://developer.joomlatools.com