rivet: a simple static site generator
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# Rivet: static site genetator
Rivet is a static site generator that takes a directory containing markdown
markdown files (and a couple special ones) and generates an output directory
that can be uploaded to a server.
Rivet uses `lowdown(1)` to convert the markdown files to html, as such refer to
the `lowdown(5)` manpage for the details of the dialect of markdown and the
possible metadata that it can parse.
## Dependencies
- [lowdown](https://kristaps.bsd.lv/lowdown/)
- POSIX utilities
- POSIX sh
## Examples
Generate site from directory to `cool_site`
```sh
$ rivet -o cool-site/ secret-sauce/ cool-url
```
The makefile I use to generate my site
```make
SRCDIR = src
DESTDIR = dst
DOMAIN = alemauri.eu
all:
rivet -o ${DESTDIR} ${SRCDIR} ${DOMAIN}
test: all
xdg-open ${DESTDIR}/index.html
install: all
rsync -vmruLz --delete ${DESTDIR}/ www@${DOMAIN}:/www/
clean:
rm -rf ${DESTDIR}
```
## The source directory
The source directory tree should at least contain:
- `index.md`: will be converted to `index.html`
- `_header.html`: contains the stuff to be placed inside all headers
- `_footer.html`: contains the stuff to be placed inside all footers
Obviously anything can go in the source direcory, keep in mind that everything
that is not markdown files will be just copied over.
## Similar tools
- [saait](https://git.codemadness.org/saait/file/README.html)
- [ssg](https://www.romanzolotarev.com/ssg.html)