SSGulnur

Overview

SSGulnur is a command-line tool to generate static HTML web pages from a provided file or folder.

Installation

Node is required. Run npm to install globally npm install --global ssgulnur.

Please use bash terminal.

Usage

ssgulnur -v | --version

Displays the tool's name and current version.

ssgulnur -h | --help

Displays a help guide with all instructions.

Help guide
SSGulnur is a command-line tool to generate static HTML web page from a provided file or folder.
Usage:
ssgulnur -v | --version current version
ssgulnur -h | --help help guide
ssgulnur -i | --input <source> specify a file or folder to use
Options for input:
-o | --output <folder> specify an output folder for produced html
By default, the output folder would be ./dist unless specified otherwise
-s | --stylesheet <url> specify a stylesheet url to use
For example, https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/water.css@2/out/water.css
Config:
-c | --config <file> specify a config file to use

ssgulnur -i | --input

• Supported file types are .txt and .md.
• Source can be a single file or a folder which can also contain sub-folders with files.
• For file names with spaces, please use quotation marks. For example: ssgulnur -i "Example file path.txt".
• For each provided file an html file will be generated. By default, all html files will be placed into the ./dist folder.
• All titles need to be the first line in the file followed by two blank lines. Otherwise, it will be considered as part of the story.

Options

| Option | Argument | Description | | -------------------- | ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | -o \| --output | <folder> | Allows to specify an output folder name. If exists, will be used, if not, gets created. Cannot be a file. By default, ./dist. | | -s \| --stylesheet | <url> | Allows to specify a particular stylesheet to use for html styling. For example, https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/water.css@2/out/water.css |

Examples

• ssgulnur -i "Example file path.txt"
• ssgulnur --input exampleFolderPath --output exampleOutputFolderPath
• ssgulnur -i exampleFolderPath -o exampleOutputFolderPath -s "https://www.exampleCSSurl.com"

ssgulnur -c | --config

• Allows the user to consolidate the above options inside of a JSON file, instead of using the command line to specify options.
• For file names with spaces, please use quotation marks. For example: ssgulnur -c "Example file path.json".

Config File Example:

example.json

{
  "input":"./path/to/input/files",
  "output":"./path/to/output/files",
  "stylesheet":"https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/water.css@2/out/water.css"
}

Stories folder is provided as a sample which you can use. It contains five Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and a markdown sample file. Generated static pages for the sample can be seen here: https://ssg-gulnur-sample.vercel.app

Bugs and new features

If you notice a bug or have a suggestion for a new feature, please go to the issues tab of the project and check if similar ideas do not already exist. If there are no duplicates, please create a new issue and document it giving as many details as possible.

Contribution

Contributions are always welcome! Please check the CONTRIBUTING.md file for more details.