Ascii Blog

A fast, modern static site generator built with Clojure.

Installation

As a Clojure Tool (Recommended)

# Install from local directory (for development)
clojure -Ttools install lambda-lifters/paparascii \
  '{:local/root "/path/to/paparascii"}' \
  :as paparascii

# Or install from GitHub (when published)
# clojure -Ttools install io.github.lambda-lifters/paparascii \
#   '{:git/url "https://github.com/lambda-lifters/paparascii.git" 
#     :git/sha "LATEST_SHA"}' \
#   :as paparascii

Usage

All commands are run from your site directory (containing site-config.edn):

# Initialize a new site
clojure -Tpaparascii init

# Clean the TARGET directory
clojure -Tpaparascii clean

# Build the site
clojure -Tpaparascii build

# Start development server
clojure -Tpaparascii serve

# Create a new blog post
clojure -Tpaparascii new-post :title '"My First Post"'

# List all posts
clojure -Tpaparascii list-posts

Creating Aliases (Optional)

For convenience, you can create shorter aliases in your shell:

# Add to ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc
alias pa-build='clojure -Tpaparascii build'
alias pa-serve='clojure -Tpaparascii serve'
alias pa-clean='clojure -Tpaparascii clean'

Site Structure

A valid paparascii site has this structure:

my-blog/
├── site-config.edn    # Site configuration
├── blog/              # Blog posts (.adoc files)
├── site/              # Site pages (about, contact, etc.)
├── resources/         # Static resources (404.html, etc.)
├── assets/            # CSS, JS, images
├── templates/         # Content templates
└── TARGET/            # Generated output (created by build)

Quick Start

1. Create a new directory for your site
2. Run clojure -Tpaparascii init
3. Edit site-config.edn with your details
4. Create content in blog/ and site/
5. Run clojure -Tpaparascii build
6. Run clojure -Tpaparascii serve to preview

Features

• Fast builds using AsciidoctorJ
• Beautiful output with Bootstrap 5
• Clean HTML generated with Hiccup
• Tag system with automatic tag pages
• Template support for consistent content
• Zero dependencies for development server
• Tool installation - works from any directory

License

MIT