Your assistant in making a static site!

Project Description

A minimalist static site generator written in Rust, inspired by Hugo. The site's html template and file layout is based off of HTML5 Boilerplate.

An example

You can see an example of a site generated with md_puppy at https://softannalee.neocities.org

Installation

Pre-requisites

• Rust (2021 Edition)

How to install

To install, first install Rust and Cargo. Then and use one the following commands;

cargo install md_puppy

or

cargo install --git https://github.com/SoftAnnaLee/md_puppy

Compiling from source

First clone this repo and then use cargo build or cargo install like the following code exerpt;

git clone https://github.com/SoftAnnaLee/md_puppy
cd md_puppy
cargo install --path "$(pwd)"

Usage

Use md_puppy help to display the following information;

md_puppy 1.0.0
AnnaLee <@SoftAnnaLee>
A minimal static site generator

USAGE:
    md_puppy [OPTIONS] [SUBCOMMAND]

OPTIONS:
    -c, --completions <SHELL>    Generate a SHELL completion script and print to stdout [possible
                                 values: bash, zsh, fish, power-shell, elvish]
    -h, --help                   Print help information
    -V, --version                Print version information

SUBCOMMANDS:
    build    Process all files in the 'content/' folder and parse into a website
    help     Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
    init     Download and initalize directories needed for website
    new      Create a new file within the 'content/' folder with default frontmatter

• md_puppy init is used to initalize a directory with the necessary files needed to begin creating a website.
• md_puppy new <FILEPATH> is used to create blank files with pre-configured frontmatter. All pages will be created in the content/ directory, and any subdirectories you add to the filepath.
• md_puppy build is used to compile the markdown in the content/ directory, and places a fully formed site in the site/ directory.
• md_puppy --completions <SHELL> is used to generate shell completions, and outputs to stdout. I reccommend looking up how to add shell completions to your personal shell to utilize this.

The site generator only has a single theme, which I used in my personal site. I give free usage to copy and reuse it; but I heavily encourage you to personalize it yourself. It is only HTML and CSS, so it should be pretty easy to modify to your own personal taste.

There is also a config.toml which has a default configuration of the following;

# Name for the website across all pages
site_name: md_puppy site
# Url to pull the static site content/theme
static_url: https://github.com/SoftAnnaLee/md_puppy/releases/download/static/static.zip
# Url to pull boilerplate
boilerplate_url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SoftAnnaLee/md_puppy/main/template/boilerplate.html
# Base Url used for relative links
base_url: https://www.example.com/

If you have a different HTML boilerplate you'd like to use, or a different theme to pull into static_url, then you can change those details there.

Purpose

I am a beginner programmer who is trying to teach themselves Rust and finishing projects. So this is pretty minimal and designed around my personal use case (running a personal blog and website). If you want any features added, I may do so on request, but sadly no guarantees. Feel free to fork or add pull requests as well!