Most. Zen. Static. Website. Generator. Ever.
Why another one? C'mon, you must be kidding...
I just wanted to set up a very simple website (just a few pages) with Jekyll and it didn't feel right. I didn't want a blog.
I checked other projects but they were incomplete, cumbersome or solved the wrong problem (blogs, blogs everywhere). I wanted a zen-like experience. Just a layout and some Markdown files as pages with unobstrusive structure and configuration.
Yes, it is another NIH but... I think Zas is a different kind of beast. I admit that I probably overlooked some projects.
Where is the difference?
- Gophers. Yes, there is Hugo (kudos!) but... Who wants to learn another directory layout? There is also Hastie too. If you want a blog.
- Markdown only. And HTML, if you want.
- Just a loop. Zas just loops over all .md and .html files in current directory (and subdirectories), ignoring all any other file (including dot-files).
- Your imagination as limit. Zas has a simple extension mechanism based in subcommands. Do you really need to handle a blog with Zas? Install/create a new extension and do it!
- Unobstrutive structure, no '_' files. More in Usage section.
Usage
Install:
$ go get github.com/imdario/zas
Go to your site's directory and do:
$ zas init
A .zas directory will be created with sane defaults. Put your layout in .zas/layout.html and you are ready.
$ zas
Yes. Enough. Your delightful site is on .zas/deploy. Enjoy.
What is happening here? Well, "generate" subcommand is called by default. This subcommand accepts the following flags:
- -verbose: print ALL the things!
- -full: generates all the input files. By default, zas has an incremental mode which keeps source and deploy directories in sync.
More at Zas repository.