Static, Elegant Websites; stitched together.
Sew is a simple static site generator.
A rejection of Jekyll and Middleman for simpler sites.
Inspired by @soveran’s Mote, a simple and fast template engine.
Sew is built around the following data structures:
A Site is a struct/dictionary/hash containing an array of Pages and Data files.
site = {
pages: [page…]
data: [data…]
}
A Page is a struct/dictionary/hash describing the attributes of a single page. This is a combination of:
id, lifted from the filenamelocale, lifted from the filenamebody, lifted from the file contents- Additional attributes are read from the YAML front matter, e.g.
title path, lifted from the file pathdestination_dircomputed fromBUILD_DIR,locale,pathdestinationcomputed fromdestination_dir+ name of HTML file
The page index.en.html in the project root with the following contents:
---
title: "Home Page"
---
<p>Welcome to my site.</p>
would be represented thus:
page = {
id: "index",
locale: :en,
body: "<p>Welcome to my site</p>",
title: "Home Page",
path: "/",
destination_dir: "/build/en/",
destination: "/build/en/index.html"
}
A Data file is the Ruby representation of the contents of any YAML file placed in the project root. The key is generated from the filename.
Sew is designed to be used with only one directory.
_layout.mote # layout
_header.mote # partial
articles.yml # data file, accessible via 'data.articles'
index.en.html # /en/index.html
index.nl.html # /nl/index.html
portfolio.logo-work.en.html # /en/portfolio/logo-work/index.html
Page attributes are accessible via the page object, e.g. page.title.
Data attributes are accessible via the data object, e.g. data.articles.
The rendered page body is accessible via content.
<!-- _layout.mote -->
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="{{page.locale}}">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>{{page.title}}</title>
{{ partial("_header") }}
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
{{content}}
</div>
<ul>
% data.articles.each do |article|
<li>{{article.title}}</li>
% end
</ul>
</body>
</html>