too-simple-site-generator

This is unsurprisingly also the repository for suyash.dev. This was never meant to be a static stite generator but it has sort of become one.

What is this?

I wanted a simple website for myself and I achieved that manually writing HTML pages. However, I wanted something which could read data from a yaml or JSON file and generate all the HTML pages for me. So I did exactly that.

The website is generated by a single, horribly-written script - gen.py. It fetches data from a JSON (on a different server in this case) and builds all the html files on each deploy. So, in essence it is a very basic static-site generator.

I did consider using Jekyll or Gatsby but having using both in the past, I thought going for something minimalistic would be better.

How can you use this too?

• Clone this repository
• Set JSON_URL in gen.py to sample_data.json.
• Change TITLE in gen.py to the title of your website.
• Run the python script: python gen.py.
• Update the sample_data.json with your data.
• Change the favicon.ico to a different icon.
• Push to github and use Netlify or Github Pages to host.

Should you host the JSON elsewhere?

The reason why I chose to have it this way is so that I can update the JSON if I needed to add new pages to my site or if I wished to change the content of any of the pages without having to alter the HTML directly.