spidey

spidey

Tiny static website generator

Spidey is a tiny tool that generates static website from HTML and markdown snippets. The generated website can contain pages as well as posts. HTML code is defined by layouts and snippets, such as header, footer or list of posts etc. Pages and posts can be written in either pure HTML or markdown. These guys are glued together to form a static websites.

Have a butcher's at src and dist in the examples directory to see it in action.

Spidey has been rapidly written to replace other tool. It contains minimal functionality, just to fulfill requirement of creating simple websites. Hence, some bits in the code are hardcoded, and there might be many TODOs.

Building

Run go build in the root directory to build the binary.

Running

Spidey has one command called generate which takes two arguments:

• source directory where the website configuration, layouts, pages, posts and other contents are located
• destination directory where HTML files should be generated, and this one has to be empty

Quick start

Create any empty directory where HTML files should be written, eg. /tmp/spidey-generated-files and run the following command from root of this repository:

spidey generate -s $(pwd)/examples/src -d /tmp/spidey-generated-files

Live preview

Spidey does not allow live preview of the website yet. However, you can use nginx docker container that would run in the background and serve the pages.

To set things up, open the _config.yml file in an editor and change the value of baseurl to http://localhost:8080 (or any other port). Next, start nginx container and mount destination directory to it (place where HTML files are generated):

docker run --name some-nginx -p 8080:80 -v /tmp/spidey-generated-files:/usr/share/nginx/html:ro -d nginx