Staticonv - Static Site Converter

Takes a folder of static site files and processes them in a predefined manner. (TODO: proper modularization is to be implemented)

References

Links:

• https://www.npmjs.com/package/staticonv
• https://github.com/finaldream/staticonv

Based on:

• Metalsmith - Static site Generator
• Cheerio - headless jQuery implementation
• Caporal - CLI framework

Installation

npm install -g staticonv

Command Line Interface

See staticonv help for CLI-options.

staticonv 0.1.1

   USAGE

     staticonv convert <converter> <input> <output>

   ARGUMENTS

     <converter>      Module that exports a function in the form of                                                            required
                      function(file: string, $: cheerio, data: object): {file: string, contents: any}
                      Modules are loaded by normal require(), with a few exceptions:
                      - starting with "./" is relative to current work-dir, not the module's JS-files
                      - starting with "~" is relative to the staticonv-module, which allows to use the example-converters

     <input>          Input folder                                                                                             required
     <output>         Output folder, always relative to PWD!                                                                   required

   GLOBAL OPTIONS

     -h, --help         Display help
     -V, --version      Display version
     --no-color         Disable colors
     --quiet            Quiet mode - only displays warn and error messages
     -v, --verbose      Verbose mode - will also output debug messages

Example:

staticonv convert ~examples/json-converter /path/to/sources/ output

Using as node-module

You can require staticonv as a module and call it programmatically:

const staticonv = require('staticonv');

staticonv({
    input: 'input path',
    output: 'output path',
    converter: function (file, $, data) { 
        // ...
        return {
            file: file,
            contents: {
                // ...
            }
        };
    },
    logger: winston || console || null,
});

Converter modules

Converters are simple modules which export a single function. This function is called once per file and allows to extract data based on the DOM-abstration provided by Cheerio.

The function takes the following arguments:

• file: string the current filename (path based on input)
• $: cheerio Cheerio DOM-abstration, provides a similar interface like jQuery.
• data: object additional data, like a buffer providing access to the raw data.

It is expected to return an object in the shape of:

• file: string repesents the new file name, where the converted data is written. If null, the file will be ignored

Examples

See folder /examples. You can run example-converters by prefixing the path with a ~, e.g.

staticonv convert ~examples/json-converter input output

Author

Oliver Erdmann

• Oliver Erdmann
• github.com/finaldream
• finaldream.de

License

Copyright © 2017, Oliver Erdmann. Released under the MIT license.