Vanilla-SSG

A very minimalistic, single function static site generator based on ES6 template strings.

It makes use of the minimalistic renderly package (https://github.com/gcazaciuc/renderly) for rendering the templates.

Getting started

Install the vanilla-ssg package:

npm i vanilla-ssg

The vanilla-ssg package is meant to be used programatically in order to generate static sites.

This is the simplest and most flexible way.

After installing, create a Javascript file that will contain the code for the generator.

Let's call it generate.js :

const { createPage } = require("vanilla-ssg");

const createClient = require("../HttpClient");
const client = createClient();

(async function() {
  const posts = await client.get("https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts");

  createPage(`posts`, { posts }, `examples/posts.tpl`);
  posts.forEach(post => {
    createPage(`posts/${post.id}`, post, `examples/post.tpl`);
  });
})();

There is a single API method called createPage taking in the page url, page data and the template to apply. It's output is an HTML file that is written to disk.

The purpose of the script is to retrieve any needed data to generate the site and to call createPage API in order to create the HTML.