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1vite
2----
3
4A fast (this time, actually) and minimal static site generator.
5
6INSTALLING
7
8 go install git.icyphox.sh/vite@latest
9
10
11USAGE
12
13 usage: vite [options]
14
15 A simple and minimal static site generator.
16
17 options:
18 init PATH create vite project at PATH
19 build builds the current project
20 new PATH create a new markdown post
21 serve [HOST:PORT] serves the 'build' directory
22
23
24CONFIG
25
26The configuration is unmarshalled from a config.yaml file, into the
27below struct:
28
29 type ConfigYaml struct {
30 Title string `yaml:"title"`
31 Desc string `yaml:"description"`
32 DefaultTemplate string `yaml:"default-template"`
33 Author struct {
34 Name string `yaml:"name"`
35 Email string `yaml:"email"`
36 } `yaml:"author"`
37 URL string `yaml:"url"`
38 }
39
40Example config: https://git.icyphox.sh/site/tree/config.yaml
41
42
43SYNTAX HIGHLIGHTING
44
45vite uses chroma (https://github.com/alecthomas/chroma) for syntax
46highlighting. Note that CSS is not provided, and will have to be
47included by the user in the templates. A sample style can be generated
48by running:
49
50 go run contrib/style.go > syntax.css
51
52
53TEMPLATING
54
55Non-index templates have access to the below objects:
56• Cfg: object of ConfigYaml
57• Meta: map[string]string of the page's frontmatter metadata
58• Body: Contains the HTML
59
60Index templates have access to everything above, and a Posts object,
61which is a slice containing HTML and Meta. This is useful for iterating
62through to generate an index page.
63Example: https://git.icyphox.sh/site/tree/templates/index.html
64
65Templates are written as standard Go templates (ref:
66https://godocs.io/text/template), and can be loaded recursively.
67Consider the below template structure:
68
69 templates/
70 |-- blog.html
71 |-- index.html
72 |-- project/
73 |-- index.html
74 `-- project.html
75
76The templates under project/ are referenced as project/index.html.
77This deserves mention because Go templates don't recurse into
78subdirectories by default (template.ParseGlob uses filepath.Glob, and
79doesn't support deep-matching, i.e. **).
80
81vite also supports templating generic YAML files. Take for instance,
82pages/reading.yaml (https://git.icyphox.sh/site/blob/master/pages/reading.yaml):
83
84 meta:
85 template: reading.html
86 title: reading
87 subtitle: Tracking my reading.
88 description: I use this page to track my reading.
89
90 books:
91 - 2024:
92 - name: Dune Messiah
93 link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_Messiah
94 author: Frank Herbert
95 status: now reading
96 - 2023:
97 - name: Dune
98 link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(novel)
99 author: Frank Herbert
100 status: finished
101
102vite will look for a 'meta' key in the YAML file, and use the 'template'
103specified to render the page. The rest of the YAML file is available to
104you in the template as a map[string]interface{} called Yaml.
105
106
107More templating examples can be found at:
108https://git.icyphox.sh/site/tree/templates
109
110
111FEEDS
112
113Atom feeds are generated for all directories under pages/. So
114pages/foo will have a Atom feed at build/foo/feed.xml.
115
116
117FILE TREE
118
119 .
120 |-- build/
121 |-- config.yaml
122 |-- pages/
123 |-- static/
124 |-- templates/
125
126The entire static/ directory gets copied over to build/, and can be
127used to reference static assets -- css, images, etc. pages/ supports
128only nesting one directory deep; for example: pages/blog/*.md will
129render, but pages/blog/foo/*.md will not.