go-build-web is a simple powerful (enough) tools to build a website using Markdown, JSON and Golang template. You don't need any special tools or database, you don't need to learn any technology. You can use the existing HTML knowledge you have and build your website. Unlike most of the static website generator, go-build-web does not pack the resources since HTTP2 has a better approach for loading and cashing resource.
There's no setup, just download the latest version from releases, extract the zip file and run go-build-web-<OS>. Your website is ready http://localhost:3000
To generate the static HTML files, run ./go-build-web-<OS> clean build. You HTML files are ready in build folder.
To create a new page, you need to create at least one index.html file in static folder. This file can be a simple HTML file or uses the Golang template tags to make it more functional. Using the template syntax you can:
- Build layout using
layout.htmlfile. - Render markdown using
MarkdownFilefunction. - Load data from an external JSON file,
index.json. You can use this file to load some classified metadata using in your pages.
To create a new folder, you just need to make a folder with the same name and put index.html inside.
For example, if you want to make http://foo.com/page1/ you need to make static/page1/index.html. You must remember in go-build-web all the pages finish by /.
For more information check the list of samples:
Simply run go-build-web-<OS> clean build and you website generetes whitin build directory.
By default application run on port 3000 You can change the port using PORT environment variable. For example in bash:
PORT=8000 ./go-build-web-<OS>