Yet another Static Site Generator

Creating a homepage which contains more than just my name and e-mail address has been on my todo list for years. There are many neat frameworks out there to build static websites and I have tried out some of them but always felt either limited or totally knocked out by the complexity of the frameworks. I therefore decided to build a static site generator from scratch to read markdown files and create a static website from them.

DESCRIPTION

Built with Node.js[1] it creates pages for all markdown files in the ./content/ folder before it generates index pages for all directories. It lets you add tags to pages and automatically creates tag lists and index pages for them. Furthermore, it creates sitemap.xml and atom.xml.

The markdown files contain a yaml header with the information necessary for rendering. For example, the one for this page (./content/projects/resolved.md) looks as follows.

---
title: 'Yet another Static Site Generator'
description: 'My simple yet powerful static...'
created: '2023-01-28T12:00:00+01:00'
updated: '2023-01-28T12:00:00+01:00'
tags: ['dev']
keywords: ['static site generator', 'SSG', ...]
---

Creating a homepage...

...

# TAGS

<!--##tag_list##-->

SOURCE CODE

github.com/pascal-huber/resolved_static