Oxypogon

Oxypogon.js is a simple static website/blog assembling utility that is build over Node.js.

I decided to make a simple blog engine named Colibri years ago (maybe near 2009), but unfortunately this name on npm is already taken. So I've browsed wiki and some sites about birds and found a beautiful and a bit grumpy hummingbird (colibri) which name is Oxypogon. That is, meet Oxypogon.js!

The development is in progress, so it can be unsafe to use the code right now.

Features

• sources in markdown
  • support for metadata like in MultiMarkdown format
• assembling static pages
• lists of pages
• tags and lists of tags
• ...
• rather smart content processing
  • external links are marked with target="_blank"

Underlying technologies

Oxypogon.js was meant to be as simple and lightweight as possible. So there are just a few libraries used for development:

• all content is extracted from markdown sources using marked
  • I also use metamd to parse out the metadata from the articles
• as Oxypogon deals with filesystem and file patterns it uses:
  • glob for pattern recognition
  • mkdirp for recursive directory creation
• moment.js for date formatting
• jade (or Pug? I don't understand why is jade package available yet) for templating

TODO

features:

• add RSS support
• make possible pagination for lists
• enable inserting dynamic parts into pieces
• make sure that preview creation works like was desired
• rebuild only pages that were actually changed since the last rebuild?
• add support for article writing duration (from-to)

to think of:

• use the first h2 in the article as a preview if no one was specified
  • what to do when h2 never appears?
• live editing

development:

• figure out a way to pass tags
• try some options for templating to find the best way of passing data
• set default templates in config, not it the sources
• simplify config

promotion:

• write readme with examples and options
  • mention added support for copying static pages
• make a site on github pages