tongs

Static site generator using Laravel Zero. Heavily based on metalsmith. WIP.

example site

Source code for the example site is at datashaman/tongs-example.

The built files are deployed at tongs-example.datashaman.com.

source and destination

The source and destination configs can be a string or a config array for a Laravel filesystem.

If it's a string, a local filesystem is created with the root set to directory/source values, where directory will be the current working directory if you use the command-line app.

For example:

{
    "source": "src",
    "destination": {
        "driver": "s3",
        "region": "eu-west-1",
        "bucket": "example.com"
    }
}

Will build from src directory to the root of an S3 bucket named example.com using the default AWS credentials.

plugins

The following plugins are provided by this package:

collections

Add posts to collections metadata by adding a collection value in front matter or matching files with a pattern (it uses fnmatch.

For example:

{
    "plugins": {
        "collections": {
            "posts": "posts/*.html",
            "other": {
                "pattern": "other/*.html"
            }
        }
    }
}

Will create two collections in metadata at $collections['posts'] and $collections['other']. If you also add collection: featured to posts' frontmatter, you can access the collection of those posts at $collections['featured'].

drafts

Mark posts as being a draft so they are not built.

For example:

{
    "plugins": {
        "drafts": truu
    }
}

will remove a post with draft: true in frontmatter.

markdown

Render Markdown files into HTML.

For example:

{
    "plugins": {
        "markdown": {
            "breaksEnabled": true,
            "strictMode": true
        }
    }
}

will convert the content from Markdown to HTML (and rename files) using a Parsedown parser. The configuration object is mangled to create config calls to the parser.

For example, the above will configure the parser with setBreaksEnabled(true) and setStrictMode(true). Consult the source code for the options.

views

Render views and layouts to HTML using Blade views.

For example:

{
    "plugins": {
        "views": {
            "paths": [
                "views"
            ],
            "compiled": ".cache"
        }
    }
}

Put view: post frontmatter in a post and it will be rendered from views/post.blade.php with Blade. Local view variables are made up the post frontmatter and the global metadata values.

More plugin packages:

• feed in datashaman/tongs-feed
• metadata in datashaman/tongs-metadata
• more in datashaman/tongs-more
• permalinks in datashaman/tongs-permalinks
• sass in datashaman/tongs-sass

To create your own plugins, look at the plugin template.