commandline-ssg

Commandline-SSG

Commandline Static Site Generating tool that helps you produce .html from .txt files

Features

The tool is before its first release but comes up with these features already:

accept .txt file to generate a .html file
accept folders to generate .html files from .txt files
goes through all the child directories of the input folder to generate the desired files
output folder can be externally provided to get the generated files at desired location. if not provided, the output is generated in a folder set as default output folder
stylesheet can be externally provided in either link form or file form to add style to the webpages. If not provided, the no stylesheet is added to the webpages
detects title and paragraph of the text file to give accurate tags in the webpage and sets title to the webpage
if the provided file is not a text file, it exits the program soundly
if a folder is provided, a new file called index.html is generated which contains link to all the files just generated

Options

Help

This option shows all the currently available options that can be used. It can be used in two ways -h or --help.
Example:

$ commandline-ssg -h

Version

This option shows the current version of the tool. It can be used in two ways -v or --version.
Example:

$ commandline-ssg -v

Input

This option takes in the file/folder that needs to be converted to generate the static site. It converts .txt file to .html file. It can be used in two ways, -i or --input.
Example:
If the input element is a file

$ commandline-ssg -i foo.txt

If the input element is a folder

$ commandline-ssg -i folder

Output

This option takes in the folder name where the user wants the final generated file to be. If this option is not provided, its default value dist is set for the folder output. It can be used in two ways, -o or --output.
Example:

$ commandline-ssg -i foo.txt -o newDist

Stylesheet

This option takes in the stylesheet that adds style to each html file generated. It can be passed as either link or file. If it is not provided, no stylesheet is added to the webpages. It can be used in two ways, -s or --stylesheet.
Example:

$ commandline-ssg -i foo.txt -s https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/tufte-css/1.8.0/tufte.min.css

Sample Use

For instance, to generate html from a folder, TextFolder, in the project root directory in a new folder HTMLFolder, and add https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/tufte-css/1.8.0/tufte.min.css URL stylesheet, we can write the following command:

$ commandline-ssg -i TextFolder -o HTMLFolder -s https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/tufte-css/1.8.0/tufte.min.css

It will do the following:
If the TextFolder has one file foo.txt with these text

./TextFolder/foo.txt

A Smart title

A short paragraph.

Another short paragraph.

a foo.html file will be generated in the HTMLFolder with the https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/tufte-css/1.8.0/tufte.min.css stylesheet.

./HTMLFolder/foo.html

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head><meta charset="utf-8">
<title>A Smart title</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/tufte-css/1.8.0/tufte.min.css">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
</head>
<body>
<h1>A Smart title</h1>
<p>A short paragraph.</p>
<p>Another short paragraph.</p>
</body></html>

Keywords

commandline-ssg cli

Authors

Ritik Bheda

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