gitkitjs

Generate a website from markdown with a minimum of fuss.

1. pnpm install -D @gitkitjs/gitkitjs
2. pnpm gitkitjs dev
3. Type o to open your browser.

More details in the guide at gitkitjs.dev.

This library provides

• A preconfigured SvelteKit app with a Vite dev server and build.
• Tailwind CSS, and the Tailwind typography plugin.
• Markdown rendering based on Markdoc.
• A set of built-in website navigation and page components.
• A way to customize the design, and add your own Svelte components.
• Static publishing using the SvelteKit static adapter.
• TypeScript

Background

Inspiration for the developer experience of gitkitjs came from VitePress. The main achitectural difference is that gitkitjs can fetch and render markdown dynamically in the browser, similar to docsify.

Installation

Use npm, pnpm, or yarn. E.g.

pnpm install -D @gitkitjs/gitkitjs

Usage

• gitkitjs dev launches a dev server to render a preview of the website while you edit content.
• gitkitjs build produces a static build of the website files.

The gitkitjs project directory can be passed as an argument E.g. gitkitjs dev docs when your gitkitjs project lives in the docs subdirectory of your repo.

For non-global installs, these commands should be added as package.json scripts E.g.

  "scripts": {
    "dev": "gitkitjs dev",
    "build": "gitkitjs build"
  }

Directories

You can override the default directories with env vars. More details in gitkit.js

• GITKITJS_PROJECT_DIR defaults to current working directory, with other directories below that.
• GITKITJS_CONTENT_DIR is where markdown files live - defaults to ./content
• GITKITJS_BUILD_DIR is where build output is written - defaults to ./build
• GITKITJS_SRC_DIR: is optional, where custom components live - defaults to ./src