🔗 makesite

Create your own custom Static Site Generator (like Jekyll or Hugo) by cloning and fulfilling the requirements in this repo!

📚 Table of Contents

1. Project Structure
2. Getting Started
3. Deliverables
4. Resources

Project Structure

📂 makesite
├── README.md
├── first-post.txt
├── latest-post.txt
├── makesite.go
└── template.tmpl

Getting Started

1. Visit github.com/new and create a new repository named makesite.
2. Run each command line-by-line in your terminal to set up the project:

$ cd ~/go/src
$ git clone git@github.com:Make-School-Labs/makesite.git
$ cd makesite
$ git remote rm origin
$ git remote add origin git@github.com:YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME/makesite.git

Deliverables

For each task:

• Complete each task in the order they appear.
• Use GitHub Task List syntax to update the task list.

MVP

Complete the MVP as If you finish early, move on to the stretch challenges.

If you get stuck on any step, be sure to print the output to stdout!

v1.0 Requirements

• Edit line 4 of README.md. Change this line to the following, replacing YOUR_USERNAME and YOUR_REPONAME with your GitHub username and repository name respectively.
• Read in the contents of the provided first-post.txt file.
• Edit the provided HTML template (template.tmpl) to display the contents of first-post.txt.
• Render the contents of first-post.txt using Go Templates and print it to stdout.
• Write the HTML template to the filesystem to a file. Name it first-post.html.
• Manually test the generated HTML page by running ./makesite. Double-click the first-post.html file that appears in your directory after running the command to open the generated page in your browser.
• Add, commit, and push to GitHub.
• Add a new flag to your command named file. This flag represents the name of any .txt file in the same directory as your program. Run ./makesite --file=latest-post.txt to test.
• Update the save function to use the input filename to generate a new HTML file. For example, if the input file is named latest-post.txt, the generated HTML file should be named latest-post.html.
• Add, commit, and push to GitHub.

v1.0 Stretch Challenges

• Use Bootstrap, or another CSS framework, to enhance the style and readability of your template. Get creative! Writing your very own website generator is a great opportunity to broadcast your style, personality, and development preferences to the world!

v1.1

v1.1 Requirements

• Create 3 new .txt files for testing in the same directory as your project.
• Add a new flag to the makesite command named dir.
• Use the flag to find all .txt files in the given directory. Print them to stdout.
• With the list of .txt files you found, generate an HTML page for each.
• Run ./makesite --dir=. to test in your local directory.
• Add, commit, and push to GitHub.

v1.1 Stretch Challenges

• Recursively find all .txt files in the given directory, as well as it's subdirectories. Print them to stdout to make sure. Generate an HTML page for each.
• When your program finishes, print: Success! Generated 5 pages. The Success! substring must be bold green, and the count (5) must be bold.
• Modify the success message to read: Success! Generated 5 pages (18.2kB total). Calculate the total by summing the size of each HTML file, then converting the total to kilobytes. Always return one significant digit after the decimal point.
• Determine how long it took to execute your static site generator. Modify the success message to read: Success! Generated 5 pages (18.2kB total) in 3.25 seconds. Always return two significant digits after the decimal point.
• Test your solutions to these stretch challenges on many different directories containing .txt files. Are there any ways to make your code faster?

v1.2

v1.2 Requirements

• Initialize Go modules in your project.
• Add any third party library to your project to enhance it's functionality. Some ideas you might consider include (CHOOSE ONLY ONE):
  • Translating page content using Google Translate.
  • Parse Markdown (.md) files and transform them into HTML. # through ###### should translate to <h1> through <h6> elements.
  • FILL IN THE BLANK: I will use the blackfriday library. The documentation is located at https://github.com/russross/blackfriday. My goal is to use it to convert .md files to .html files.
• Add, commit, and push to GitHub.

Resources

Lesson Plans

• BEW 2.5: Project #1 - SSGs: Code samples you can use to complete the MVP requirements.
• BEW 2.5: Files & Directories: Code samples you can use to complete v1.1 requirements.
• BEW 2.5: Files & Directories: Code samples you can use to complete v1.2 requirements.

Example Code

• Go By Example: Reading Files
• Go By Example: Writing Files
• Go By Example: Panic
• GopherAcademy: Using Go Templates
• rapid7.com: Building a Simple CLI Tool with Golang