Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?
Blake is an opinionated static site generator written in Dart lang. It is provided as a single binary and can be used even without Dart installed.
Features as of now:
- Markdown support.
- YAML configuration and front-matter.
- Jinja templates. Also usable in Markdown files.
- Live-reload during development.
- Compiled into single native binary.
- YAML/JSON data content and non-public Data pages.
- Pre-defined content types for quick creation.
- Generated JSON search index.
sitemap.xml
generation.- Inline & body shortcodes.
Remember that this project is WIP. Everything can change at any time.
You can download compiled binary on release page. Builds are currently done manually and not every platform (i.e. Windows/Mac/Linux) will be available for each release.
Another option is using pub global activate blake
.
Use blake init
to setup a new project in the current directory. blake init <name>
will setup the project inside the <name>
directory.
Use blake build
to generate the site from your files. By default, generated files will be outputted into the public
folder.
Use blake serve
to start a webserver to see your site instantly. The site will be rebuilt every time you change files in your project and the browser tab will be reloaded automatically.
Use blake new
to create new content based on types defined in types
folder.
And as usual, blake
or blake help
will show usage help.
content
directory contains all Markdown files which will be transformed into HTML files.
static
directory files will be copied into the public
folder without change.
public
contains generated files.
templates
should contain templates which will be used to process Markdown files inside content
.
data
contains YAML/JSON files which you can use inside templates.
types
is used by the new
command to quickly create content.
config.yaml
configures build options for your site.
You can build Blake into a single native binary. As of now, this binary can only be run on the same platform it was built on. Once compiled, you can run Blake without needing to install Dart SDK.
To compile this project, you need to install grinder package.
pub global activate grinder
Then you can run the grind compile
script to produce a native binary together with an archive. This command will output a binary and an archive into the build
directory.
grind compile
You can also run this project without compiling it to the binary.
dart bin/blake.dart
Or you can activate Blake globally from a local path which is useful during development.
pub global activate --source path .