Photon static site generator (experimental)

Photon is a static site generator based on Neos CMS technology.

What is Photon?

• Content is stored in folders and files without needing a database
• A static version of the Neos Content Repository provides many of the same features like flexible and custom Node Types for structuring semantic content - by using folders and YAML files
• Content can be nested inside YAML files (but it can always be split in separate files)
• Photon does not use a fixed one-to-one mapping between files for the content and its output, like many other SSGs
• Generating something (it's not limited to HTML) from the content is fully flexible and based on Fusion (as one possible generator implementation)
• Fusion in Photon can use FlowQuery to traverse static nodes almost like in the original content repository
• For now it's an experiment to see how static site generation and Neos can be brought together

Getting started

Creating a new project

composer create-project flowpack/photon-base-distribution -s dev photon-demo

Generate content from the demo package

./flow generate:content Flowpack.Photon.Demo

See Flowpack.Photon.Demo/Resources/Private/Fusion/Root.fusion for a demo generator definition and Flowpack.Photon.Demo/Resources/Private/Content for the static content layout.

Development

All development is done in https://github.com/Flowpack/photon-development-collection, expect to find a lot of loose ends and bugs.