Show recent blog activity on main page

Question

Using Lektor, trying to determine how to list the most recent three blogs by published date on the main landing (root) page. I'm feeling like I should be using a macro, but I don't understand how to pass the Blogs to the page template, or if this is an example of a flowblock? I've added a section like the following to the page.ini:

[children]
model = blog-post
order_by = -pub_date, title

but can't seem to loop through them in the template (no error is thrown but doesn't iterate). Quite lost, but still consuming the documentation.

Answer 1

I ended up using the site.query class functionality directly in the layout template (based on the Blog quickstart).

{% for blogpost in site.query('/blog').order_by('pub_date').limit(3) %}
    <div class="post col-md-4">
        <div class="post-details">
          <div class="post-meta d-flex justify-content-between">
            <div class="date">{{ blogpost.pub_date }}</div>
          </div><a href="post.html"> <!-- fix this one shortly -->
            <h3 class="h4">{{ blogpost.title }}</h3></a>
          <p class="text-muted">{{ blogpost.teaser }}</p>
        </div>
    </div>
{% endfor %}