SiteForge

A lightweight static site generator for documentation, built in Go.

Features

• Fast builds — Compile Markdown to HTML in milliseconds
• Simple configuration — YAML-based site configuration
• Themeable — Customizable HTML layouts with Go templates
• Navigation — Automatic sidebar navigation from page weights
• Search — Full-text search index generation
• RSS — Automatic RSS feed generation
• Sitemap — XML sitemap generation
• Dev server — Live reload development server

Quick Start

# Install
go install github.com/EdgarOrtegaRamirez/siteforge/cmd/siteforge@latest

# Initialize a new site
siteforge init

# Build the site
siteforge build

# Serve locally
siteforge serve

Configuration

Create a siteforge.yaml file:

title: My Documentation
description: Project documentation
base_url: https://example.com/
theme: default
language: en
build:
  out_dir: public
  content_dir: content
  theme_dir: themes
  static_dir: static

Content

Create Markdown files in the content/ directory with optional front matter:

---
title: Page Title
weight: 1
---

# Page Title

Your content here.

Project Structure

siteforge/
├── content/           # Markdown content files
├── static/            # Static assets (CSS, JS, images)
├── themes/            # HTML themes
│   └── default/
│       └── layouts/   # HTML templates
├── siteforge.yaml     # Site configuration
└── public/            # Generated output

CLI Commands

Command	Description
siteforge init	Initialize a new site
siteforge build	Build the static site
siteforge serve	Start development server
siteforge version	Print version

Architecture

cmd/siteforge/        CLI entry point (Cobra)
internal/
├── build/            Build pipeline orchestrator
├── config/           YAML configuration parser
├── feed/             RSS feed generator
├── markdown/         Goldmark-based Markdown renderer
├── nav/              Navigation sidebar builder
├── search/           Full-text search index builder
├── serve/            Development file server
├── sitemap/          XML sitemap generator
└── template/         Go template engine

Algorithms

• Markdown parsing — Goldmark (CommonMark-compliant)
• Navigation sorting — Weight-based with title fallback
• Search indexing — TF-IDF-style scoring (title matches weighted 10x)
• Front matter parsing — Simple key:value extraction
• Slug generation — Lowercase, hyphenated, alphanumeric only

License

MIT