coltrane

A Dynamic Site Generator that harnesses the power of Django without the hassle 🎵

📖 Complete documentation at https://coltrane.readthedocs.io.

📦 Package located at https://pypi.org/project/coltrane/.

⭐ Features

• Render markdown files as HTML with automatic URL routing based on the filesystem
• Use JSON files as data sources in HTML templates or markdown
• Automatic generation of sitemap.xml and rss.xml files
• Can serve non-markdown files like robots.txt
• Local development server which includes live re-rendering of markdown and data via https://github.com/adamchainz/django-browser-reload
• Deployment best practices with whitenoise and gunicorn already configured
• Leverage the power of built-in Django templates, template tags, and filters inside markdown files
• Any custom template tags and filters are enabled automatically for use in markdown or HTML templates
• Include any third-party Django app for additional functionality
• Optional static site generator to output HTML files
• Able to be integrated into a regular Django project as a third-party Django app

⚡ Quick start

1. mkdir new-site && cd new-site to create a new folder
2. poetry init --no-interaction --dependency 'coltrane:<1' && poetry install to create a new virtual environment and install the coltrane package
3. Optional: brew install watchman on MacOS for less resource-intensive local development server
4. poetry run coltrane create to create the folder structure for a new site
5. poetry run coltrane play to start local development server
6. Go to http://localhost:8000 to see the original markdown rendered into HTML
7. Update content/index.md
8. Go to http://localhost:8000 to see the updated markdown rendered into HTML
9. Optional: run poetry run coltrane record to build static HTML files

Generated coltrane file structure

.
├── __init__.py
├── app.py
├── content
│   └── index.md
├── data
├── poetry.lock
└── pyproject.toml

📝 Content

Add markdown files or sub-directories to the content directory and rendered HTML will be accessible via auto-generated routes.

• / would render the markdown in content/index.md
• /about/ would render the markdown in content/about.md
• /articles/this-is-the-first-article/ would render the content from /content/articles/this-is-the-first-article.md
• /not-there/ will 404

HTML will also be served automatically if a markdown file can not be found.

• /app/ would render the HTML from /templates/app.html or /templates/app/index.html
• /app/some-user would render the HTML from /templates/app/*.html

📖 Documentation

Read all of the documentation at https://coltrane.readthedocs.io.

Contributors ✨

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

Tobi DEGNON ⚠️ 💻

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!