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Mextron
A blazing fast static site generator in Rust
🚧 This project is currently under development. Expect breaking changes. 🚧 🚧 This Project is currently POSIX friendly. For windows machines please use WSL🚧
A sleek and minimalist static site generator written in Rust. Designed with simplicity in mind, Mextron makes website creation a breeze. It supports Markdown files, allowing you to write content with ease.
DEMO
Here is a live DEMO my blog is built using Mextron.
Installation
You can install Mextron using Cargo:
cargo install mextron
Create new project
You can initialise a new project using new
command.
mextron new <folder>
You can optionally specify a theme also with the feature flag -t
.
mextron new <folder> -t pico
Running Mextron in Dev mode
You can run mextron in the dev mode by using the dev
mode
There is also a -w
i.e watch
feature flag in dev mode for using hot reloading.
mextron dev -w # If you are in the Project Directory
# OR
mextron dev <INPUT_DIRECTORY> -w # If you wanna specify which folder to run
Running Mextron in Build mode
You can run mextron in the build mode by using the build
mode
mextron build # If you are in the Project Directory
# OR
mextron build <INPUT_DIRECTORY> # If you wanna specify which folder to run
Features
- Markdown support
- Custom Themes
- Syntax highlighting
- SEO
- Custom Metadata Passthrough
Project Structure
The following folder structure is expected by Mextron:
.
├── pages
│ ├── about
│ │ └── page.md
│ ├── blog
│ │ ├── page.md
│ │ └── why-learn-rust.md
│ └── page.md
├── public
│ ├── favicon.ico
│ ├── flamethrower.js
│ └── images
│ └── og.png
├── Settings.toml
└── theme
├── app.hbs
├── blog.hbs
├── global.css
└── post.hbs
The docs
folder is the input directory of the project and is always specified while running dev server or building. You can specify a different input directory like this:
mextron dev <input-dir-path>
- The
Settings.toml
file contains the settings of the website, you can customize the website by changing the values in this file. - The
public
folder contains all the static assets of the website, these files are copied as-is to the output directory. - The
pages
folder contains all the Markdown files, this is where you write your content. - The
theme
folder contains all site templates and styles. It is written using handlebars syntax. - The
global.css
file contains the global CSS of the website, you can write your own CSS in this file.
Building custom pages
A great example would be a blog index page where you show a list of posts and link to them. This can be achieved by accessing the site directory that is passed to every page. The site directory can be accessed through the root object, this is available in every page and it represents the entire site structure including its metadata, so I can render a blog index page like this:
A custom template say blog
, with lists all pages under blog
folder.
<ul>
{{#each root.blog}}
{{#if (not (eq @key "_self"))}}
<hgroup>
<h4><a href="{{@key}}/">{{this.title}}</a></h4>
<h2>{{this.author}}</h2>
</hgroup>
{{/if}}
{{/each}}
</ul>
Then define a new page under blog folder and specify the template as blog
which we have created as shown above.
--
template: blog
title: ~/Mextron/blog
--
### This is a blog index
The Settings.toml
file
The Settings.toml
file contains the settings of the website, you can customize the website by changing the values in this file.
[dev]
port = 3000 # The port on which the dev server runs
ws_port = 3001 # The port on which the dev server websocket runs, for hot reloading
[site]
script_urls = [] # List of script urls to be included in the site
style_urls = [ # List of style urls to be included in the site
'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@picocss/pico@1/css/pico.min.css',
'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/prismjs@1.29.0/themes/prism-tomorrow.min.css',
]
[meta]
title = "~/Mextron" # The title of the website
description = "Blazing fast static site generator written in Rust" # The description of the website
og_image_url = "https://mextron.vercel.app/images/og.png" # The og image url of the website
base_url = "https://mextron.vercel.app" # The base url of the website, used for building sitemap
[navigation] # The navigation links of the website
links = [
{ label = "~/", url = "/" },
{ label = "GitHub", url = "https://github.com/AvaterClasher/mextron" },
{ label = "Website", url = "https://soumyadipmoni.netlify.app" },
{ label = "Blog", url = "/blog/" },
{ label = "About", url = "/about/" },
]
[data] # The data to be passed to every page, can be accessed using `data` object in every page
author = "Soumyadip Moni"
author_link = "https://github.com/AvaterClasher"
[remote_data] # The remote data to be fetched and passed to every page, can be accessed using `remote_data` object
repo_meta = "https://api.github.com/repos/AvaterClasher/mextron" # The url of the remote data
Handlebars Helpers
Mextron provides a few handlebars helpers to make your life easier. This project uses handlebars-rust and hence all the helpers provided by it are available. Apart from that, Mextron provides the following helpers:
slice
: Slices an array and returns the sliced array.sort-by
: Sorts an array of objects by a key.format-date
: Formats a date using the given format.stringify
: Converts a value to string, this is useful for debugging.
You can find examples of these helpers in the demo project.
Deployment
You can build the site using the build command:
mextron build <input-dir-path>
The build outputs are saved to _site
folder. So, you can deploy the website by copying the _site
folder to your web server. You can also use GitHub pages to host your website. Here is an example GitHub action to deploy your website to GitHub pages:
# Simple workflow for deploying static content to GitHub Pages
name: Publish to Pages
on:
# Runs on pushes targeting the default branch
push:
branches: ["main"]
# Allows you to run this workflow manually from the Actions tab
workflow_dispatch:
# Sets permissions of the GITHUB_TOKEN to allow deployment to GitHub Pages
permissions:
contents: read
pages: write
id-token: write
# Allow only one concurrent deployment, skipping runs queued between the run in-progress and latest queued.
# However, do NOT cancel in-progress runs as we want to allow these production deployments to complete.
concurrency:
group: "pages"
cancel-in-progress: false
jobs:
# Single deploy job since we're just deploying
deploy:
environment:
name: github-pages
url: ${{ steps.deployment.outputs.page_url }}
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Checkout
uses: actions/checkout@v3
- name: Setup Pages
uses: actions/configure-pages@v3
- name: Install
run: cargo install mextron
- name: Build
run: mextron build src # Replace src with your input directory
- name: Upload artifact
uses: actions/upload-pages-artifact@v1
with:
# Upload entire repository
path: "./_site"
- name: Deploy to GitHub Pages
id: deployment
uses: actions/deploy-pages@v2
LICENSE
You can find the license here.
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