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SiteSmith 🛠️

SiteSmith is a Rust CLI tool designed to generate a personal website. It reads project and work experience data from JSON files and uses a template to create an HTML website.

Features

Parses JSON data for projects and work experience.
Utilizes an HTML template to format and generate the website.
Customizable templates for projects and work entries.

Installation

Ensure you have Rust installed.
Install SiteSmith using Cargo:

cargo install sitesmith

Usage

To generate your website, run the sitesmith CLI tool with the following arguments:

sitesmith --projects <projects.json> --work <work.json> --template <template.html> --output <output.html>

Arguments

--projects: Path to the JSON file containing project data.
--work: Path to the JSON file containing work experience data.
--template: Path to the HTML template file.
--output: Path to the output HTML file to be generated.

Example

sitesmith --projects projects.json --work work.json --template template.html --output index.html

JSON Data Format

Projects JSON Format

The projects JSON file should contain an array of project entries. Each entry should have the following structure:

[
    {
        "name": "Project Name",
        "descr": ["Project description item 1", "Project description item 2"],
        "extra": ["<p>Additional project information</p>"]
    },
    ...
]

Work Experience JSON Format

The work JSON file should contain an array of work experience entries. Each entry should have the following structure:

[
    {
        "name": "Job Title",
        "timespan": "Duration",
        "location": "Location",
        "descr": ["Job description item 1", "Job description item 2"],
        "extra": ["<p>Additional job information</p>", "<b>Even more job info!</b>"]
    },
    ...
]

HTML Template

The HTML template should include placeholders for the projects and work experience sections. For example:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>My Personal Website</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
    <header>
        <h1>Welcome to My Personal Website</h1>
    </header>
    <main>
        <section id="projects">
            {projects}
        </section>
        <section id="work">
            {work}
        </section>
    </main>
    <footer>
        <p>© 2024 Your Name</p>
    </footer>
</body>
</html>

The placeholders {projects} and {work} will be replaced with the generated HTML content for the projects and work experience respectively.

Example

You can see a live example of a website generated using SiteSmith here.

The source code for this example is available on GitHub: bradeneverson.github.io.

Contributing

Fork the repository.
Create a new branch (git checkout -b feature-branch).
Make your changes.
Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add new feature').
Push to the branch (git push origin feature-branch).
Create a new Pull Request.

Dependencies

~1.6–2.6MB
~50K SLoC