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@benchristel/mdsite

v0.7.1

Published

A modern generator for old-school static sites

Downloads

66

Readme

@benchristel/mdsite

A modern generator for old-school static sites. Under construction!

mdsite generates an HTML website from any tree of Markdown files.

@benchristel/mdsite on NPM

Quick Start

Create a directory for your project to live in:

mkdir my-first-mdsite
cd my-first-mdsite

Create a markdown file in a src directory:

mkdir src
cat <<<'
# Welcome to My Website
Pretty cool, right?
' > src/welcome.md

Compile it to HTML:

npx @benchristel/mdsite

mdsite will create a docs folder with the compiled HTML. You'll see a warning about a missing template file; that's okay.

Serve the website locally:

npx http-server -c-1 -o docs -p 8080

The site should open in your browser automatically. If it doesn't, visit http://localhost:8080.

Installation

npm install -g @benchristel/mdsite

After installing, you should be able to run mdsite anywhere.

Documentation

See benchristel.github.io/mdsite.

Development

TODO

  • Change template.html convention to _template.html, order.txt to _order.txt, to avoid conflicting with first-party files, and to make these special files more visible in an explorer/tree view.
  • Allow raw HTML: if file starts with <html or <!doctype (case-insensitive), don't templatize it.
  • Authors should be able to customize the home URL and link text on a {{breadcrumb}}. E.g. {{breadcrumb --home-url /hello.html --home-text "🛖"}}
  • Authors should have some way to use different templates or different CSS files per page/subtree
    • Proposal 1: _template.html per directory, applies to .md files within that directory.

Tools

yarn          # install dependencies and set up repo for development
yarn test     # run unit tests
yarn serve    # start dev server
yarn ts       # start typechecker
yarn verify   # run all checks
yarn version  # cut a release