Static Base

A small functional toolset for building static websites.
Check out static-base-contrib for some pre-build functions.

A simple example

import { run } from 'static-base';

run(
  /* get content from files */
  (files) => {
    return files.map(f => { ...f, content: readFile(f.entirePath) });
  },

  /* render markdown */
  (files) => {
    return files.map(f => { ...f, content: markdown(f.content) });
  }

  /* write to disk */
  (files) => {
    return [...files].forEach(file => {
      writeFile(path.join(file.root, 'build', file.path), file.content);
    });
  }

)(
  '**/*.markdown',
  process.cwd()

).then(() => {
  console.log('Build was successful!')

}).catch((err) => {
  console.error('Build error!');
  console.error(err);

});

Documentation

http://icidasset.github.io/static-base

A detailed example and explanation

Note: This example uses functions from static-base-contrib, but the explanation should be easy enough to understand without any knowledge of the contrib library.

/**
 * Make a dictionary.
 *
 * Which is essentially a collection of objects that contain
 * the path to each file that matches the given glob pattern.
 */
const articles = run(
  [read],                         /* puts the content of each file in the 'content' property */
  [frontmatter],                  /* extracts the frontmatter from 'content' and parses it */
  [markdown, markdownRenderer],   /* parses 'content' as markdown */
  [renameExtension, '.html'],     /* change the '.md' extension to '.html' */
)(
  'articles/**/*.md',   /* glob pattern that selects all articles */
  process.cwd()         /* path to the root directory of this project */
);


/**
 * Build collections and store them in the metadata,
 * so that each file has a reference to the other files.
 * Then render their layout and write them to disk.
 */
Promise.all([
  articles
]).then(dictionaries => {
  const [articles] = dictionaries;

  run(
    [ metadata, { collections } ],  /* store dictionaries in every file definition */
    [ template, renderHandlebars ], /* e.g. render article layout */
    [ write, 'build/articles' ]     /* writes all files to disk */
                                    /* -> /process_cwd_path/build/articles/path_from_file */
  )(
    [
      ...articles,
    ]
  );
});

Development

npm install
npm test        # run tests
npm compile     # compile es6 src code
npm run docs    # generate documentation