Documentation
inko-wobsite
A small and opinionated static site generation library, written in Inko, named after xkcd 148.
Requirements
- Inko 0.17.0 or newer
Installation
inko pkg add github.com/yorickpeterse/inko-wobsite 0.19.0
inko pkg sync
Usage
To get started, create src/main.inko
with the following contents:
import wobsite (Site)
class async Main {
fn async main {
Site.build(fn (site) {
})
}
}
Next, make sure the ./source
directory exists, as this is where your site's
source files are placed:
mkdir source
If you now run inko run
, the site will be built into the public
directory.
At this point, nothing useful is built as we haven't defined any rules yet.
To build the site, you can use the following methods on the Site
type:
copy(pattern)
: copies files from the source directory to the output directory. This is useful for simply copying files such as CSS or simple text files.generate(path, func)
: callsfunc
and writes its return value topath
(relative to the output directory). This is useful when generating files using arbitrary logic, such as an Atom feed.page(pattern, func)
: finds Markdown files matchingpattern
, turning them into HTML files by calling thefunc
closure. The output is written toNAME/index.html
(e.g.articles/foo/index.html
).page_without_index(pattern, func)
: finds Markdown files matchingpattern
, turning them into HTML files by calling thefunc
closure. The output is written toNAME.html
(e.g.articles/foo.html
).
For example:
import wobsite (Site)
class async Main {
fn async main {
Site.build(fn (site) {
site.copy('*.css')
})
}
}
Here site.copy('*.css')
tells the site generator to copy any .css
files
found in source
(or any of its sub directories) into the public
directory,
using the same hierarchy as the source directory (e.g. source/css/icons.css
becomes public/css/icons.css
).
Converting Markdown to HTML
Generating an HTML file from a Markdown file is a little more involved:
import wobsite (Site, Page)
class async Main {
fn async main {
Site.build(fn (site) {
site.page('/index.md', fn {
recover fn (_, page: Page) { Result.Ok(page.to_html([])) }
})
})
}
}
This turns source/index.md
into public/index.html
by parsing index.md
and
turning its Markdown into HTML, without wrapping it in a layout of sorts.
Markdown files are required to use this format:
---
{
"title": "TITLE HERE",
"date": "YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ"
}
---
The body goes here.
For example:
---
{
"title": "This is my website",
"date": "2014-02-04T13:00:00Z"
}
---
This is the homepage of my wobsite. Cool!
The title
key is required, but the date
key is optional.
For a more in-depth example, refer to:
- The API documentation
- The source code of my personal website.
License
All source code in this repository is licensed under the Mozilla Public License version 2.0, unless stated otherwise. A copy of this license can be found in the file "LICENSE".
Modules
wobsite | A simple static site generator, written in Inko. |
wobsite.markdown | Processing of Markdown documents. |
wobsite.time | Methods for parsing and formatting dates and times. |
wobsite.url | Methods for working with URLs and URIs. |