A simple website generator.
Install with npm install -g simple-site.
Run with simple-site build.
Simple-site recursively processes all files in the current directory and outputs them into an output directory. Depending on the file extension, different actions take place.
*.mdapply the contents to the given template (see below).*.htmlapply possibly existing handlebar{{...}}tags.- all other files copied into the output directory without any processing.
A simple .md file looks like this:
title: Hello site!
author: Joe Doe
date: 2017-03-17
template: _templates/simple.html
---
Here some *markdown* content.the corresponding template simple.html would be:
<body>
<h1>{{title}}</h1>
{{date}}, {{author}}
<br>
{{{content}}
</body>{{...}} are handlebars expressions which reference the data from the .md file.
Configuration parameters can be defined on the command line simple-site build --outputDir=dist or in a file named _config.yaml.
All parameters are available in handlebar tags.
The following parameters exist:
outputDir The output directory. Default: output
exclude File patterns that should excluded from processing (by default all files starting with _ or . are already excluded).
watch When present, all files are watched and processed on change, the output directory is served on port 8111.
All .js files in _plugins are read and processed at the begin of the process.