Webring Starter Kit

A boilerplate to host your own community of sites, also known as a webring.
Inspired by this post from Charlie Owen.

Uses Eleventy and Netlify to build a central directory for member sites. People can link to /prev, /random and /next and be redirected to members of the ring.

See the Demo Site

• Admins manage the ring on Github
• Members are defined in src/data/members.json
• Let people add their site through pull request or submit via Netlify Form
• Publish a Code of Conduct
• Provide an embed code that renders a badge (as a web component)
• Publish an index of all member RSS feeds

How to host a ring

1. Fork this repo
2. Edit src/data/meta.json and fill in your community info
3. Add an avatar image for your ring to src/assets/images
4. Remove the demo members in src/data/members.json
5. Deploy your site to Netlify
6. After you've set a domain, enter that in meta.json as well.

Local Development

To build the site locally, run these commands:

# clone this repository
git clone git@github.com:maxboeck/webring.git

# go to the working directory
cd webring

# install dependencies
yarn

# start a local build server and the gulp pipeline
yarn start