DEV Community

Charles Ouellet
Charles Ouellet

Posted on • Originally published at snipcart.com on

3 1

Jekyll E-Commerce Tutorial: Add a Shopping Cart to Your Jekyll (v4.0)

Static Site E-Commerce: Integrating Snipcart with Jekyll

Like many devs, one of our first encounters with static site generators came through the discovery of Jekyll.

It was back in 2015.

Jekyll was dominating the field at that time, and we remember loving it from the get-go.

Even though it has more competition than ever, you can still see Jekyll sitting at the top of the list of popular SSGs.

Today, I want to explore Jekyll for one specific use case: e-commerce.

So after going through this SSGs’ basics and why it’s a good option for e-commerce projects, I’ll show you how to build a fully functioning Jekyll shop.

Tutorial steps 🛠

  • Installing Ruby & Jekyll
  • Creating a collection
  • Overriding Jekyll’s default theme
  • Integrating a shopping cart
  • Deploying a Jekyll e-commerce website

Let’s do this!

Read the rest of this post here

AWS GenAI LIVE image

Real challenges. Real solutions. Real talk.

From technical discussions to philosophical debates, AWS and AWS Partners examine the impact and evolution of gen AI.

Learn more

Top comments (0)

Billboard image

Create up to 10 Postgres Databases on Neon's free plan.

If you're starting a new project, Neon has got your databases covered. No credit cards. No trials. No getting in your way.

Try Neon for Free →