Code over configuration.
- Jinja2 templates
- Markdown rendering with YAML frontmatter
- Sass/SCSS rendering
- Dev server
- Template project
- Clean extensible API
- Fast Enough
- Fails Fast
Available from PyPI:
pip install lightweight
from lightweight import Site, SiteCli, markdown, paths, jinja, template, sass
def blog_posts(source):
post_template = template('_templates_/blog/post.html')
# Use globs to select files. # source = 'posts/**.md'
return (markdown(path, post_template) for path in paths(source))
def example(url):
site = Site(url)
# Render an index page from Jinja2 template.
site.add('index.html', jinja('index.html'))
# Render markdown blog posts.
[site.add(f'blog/{post.source_path.stem}.html', post) for post in blog_posts('posts/**.md')]
site.add('blog.html', jinja('posts.html'))
# Render SASS to CSS.
site.add('css/global.css', sass('styles/main.scss'))
# Include a copy of a directory.
site.add('img')
site.add('fonts')
site.add('js')
return site
def generate_prod():
example(url='https://example.org/').generate(out='out')
if __name__ == '__main__':
# Run CLI with `build` and `serve` commands.
SiteCli(build=example).run()
Initialize a new project using init
command:
lw init --url https://example.org example
It accepts multiple optional arguments:
lw init -h
usage: lw init [-h] [--title TITLE] location
Generate Lightweight skeleton application
positional arguments:
location the directory to initialize site generator in
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--title TITLE the title of of the generated site
Lightweight includes a simple static web server with live reload serving at localhost:8080
:
python -m website serve
Here website
is a Python module
Host and port can be changed via:
python -m website serve --host 0.0.0.0 --port 80
The live reload can be disabled with --no-live-reload
flag:
python -m website serve --no-live-reload
Otherwise every served HTML file will be injected with a javascript that polls /__live_reload_id__
.
The script triggers page reload when the value at that location changes.
The /__live_reload_id__
is changed after regenerating the site upon change in --source
directory.
To stop the server press Ctrl+C
in terminal.