A simple site generator that converts markdown files (.md) to HTML in situe, using a given template.
Built and previously used for my website. Subsenquently replaced by site-gen-rust (see other repo).
- Swift 5.8
- Xcode 14.3
from terminal
make
Example template.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>{{%%title%%}}</title>
<meta name="Description" content="{{%%description%%}}"/>
<meta name="Keywords" content="{{%%keywords%%}}"/>
</head>
<body>
{{%%content%%}}
</body>
</html>Alongside the markdown file, you must provide a meta.json (or named different, see metadatafilename in the settings) containing the information required for the production of the page.
These are to be used in the header of the HTML.
{
"title": "Boomdeck",
"description": "Opiniated Music and Radio Player for macOS",
"keywords": [
"MacOS", "Web Radio player", "MP3", "Player", "WAV", "aiff", "Radios", "Swift", "SwiftUI"
]
}a .settings.json file is required along side the executable, e.g.
{
"workdir": "/Users/User/Documents/path/to/website",
"metadatafilename": "meta.json",
"template": "templates/template.html",
"contenttag": "{{%%content%%}}",
"titletag": "{{%%title%%}}",
"descriptiontag" : "{{%%description%%}}",
"keywordstag": "{{%%keywords%%}}"
}./sitegen
The site generator will look from the workdir recursively, through every folder and convert and found markdown file (.md) to an HTML so as long as a meta.json is found along with it.
NOTE, by default, it will look for .settings.json, but a different settings.json can be provided as parameter: ./sitegen different.json