If you have a presence on the internet, you are probably active on a variety of services: Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Discord, the list goes on. How do you manage a distributed identity like this? For us web developers, the answer seems obvious: just build yourself a website!
This solution is not within reach for everyone. The primary goal of Sasquatch is to make it easy for anyone to create their own personal landing page to manage their online identity.
These landing pages are relatively simple: your name, a logo, a little text, and a list of links to places on the internet where you're active. The website for this project is an example of what a Sasquatch page will look like.
Creating your own landing page with Sasquatch will require a GitHub or a GitLab account.
If you're reading this on GitHub and are here for the first time, don't panic! This is where some of us nerds like to store our code and talk about it. Go ahead and sign up for a GitHub account right now. I'll be here when you get back.
Once you have a GitHub or GitLab account, click the button below to create a copy of this repo and import it into the Forestry CMS. This step will also prompt you to create a Forestry account, but you can just sign up with your GitHub or GitLab account.
View the customizer documentation
When you're ready to get your landing page up on the internet, you'll need to handle the hosting part yourself. This is a lot easier than it sounds! I recommend using Netlify -- you can host your site for free, and set up is easy. This project is pre-configured to work seamlessly with Netlify. You can log in to their service with your GitHub account as well.
This project is also compatible with any other hosting option recommended by Forestry.
In some ways, Sasquatch is an experiment. I hope you give it a shot, and ping me on here (or @wordsaboutcode on Twitter) to let me know what you think!
Sasquatch sites are built with Hugo. All customizable options are stored in data/pageOptions.toml, and this file is what is exposed in the Forestry UI to make the customizer work.
To run this site locally, you must have Hugo installed. I recommend the latest version of Hugo, but anything from 0.43 and up should be fine.
Start the local development server by running hugo server.
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