Static site generator 个的静态网站生成器

If you like learning by example, you can check out a xiexie blog template and play with it to get an intuition. To start you only need to know that the dynamic values are rendered by prefixing with xiexie:: and each html needs a JSON config file, most of them are more or less copy-paste of another.

For a real-world usage of xiexie, you can check my technical blog.

Download xiexie from releases

To use it globally, copy xiexie to /usr/bin

xiexie --source path/to/source/directory --target path/to/target/directory

For each page named i.e. about, you create 3 files:

• HTML with content and xiexie::-prefixed tags (about.html)
• CSS with page specific styles (about.css)
• JSON (about.json)

JSON file needs a specific schema, which is defined below.

This is where content of a template is rendered.

xiexie::body

It is replaced with a <link> pointing to a page's CSS file.

xiexie::css

Use aggregations when you want to make copies of some HTML structure multiple times. For example, when you want to render a collection of posts on a blog.

<xiexie::aggregation::aggregationName>
    xiexie::aggregation:aggregationName::fieldName
</xiexie::aggregation::aggregationName>

This is how your JSON file is structured.

A file has a purpose. If it's a template for other pages, set it to template. If it renders a collection of pages, set it to aggregator. If it's a page (like about.html), set it to "page".

If a file is a regular page, it needs a template. Put a name of a template as a value, i.e. "blog-post".

{
    "purpose": "template" | "aggregator" | "page",
    "template": templateFileName,
    "fields": [
        {
            fieldFileName: "value of field name"
        },
        {
            anotherFieldFileName: ""
        }
    ],
    "aggregations": [
        {
            aggregationName: [
                {
                    fieldFileName: ""
                },
                {
                    anotherFieldFileName: ""
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

If you don't want to use a released binary version, build xiexie on your own. Clone this repository

Run cargo build --release in a project root directory. You need Rust and Cargo to build it

A binary file will be available in target/release/xiexie

Free for personal use. Email me for a commercial license.

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