Small, simple static site generator with no nonsense features. It is a minimalistic tool to automate tedious parts of a static website.
Written in JavaScript. Iceage operates on HTML files with Liquid templates embedded.
npm install --save-dev iceage-ssgOnce installed, you can add the command invocation in your package.json
"scripts": {
"dev": "iceage --reload --open",
"build": "iceage"
}iceage can also be installed globally as:
npm install --global iceage-ssgOnce installed, check the version using:
iceage --versionThe structure of a Iceage website is as follows
./
- layouts/
- default.html
- blogs.html
- imports/
- header.html
- footer.html
- pages/
- index.html
- posts/
- post1.html
- post2.html
- static/
- style.css
- main.js
- favicon.ico
pages/ are the root of your website. It contains the pages which your actual site will have. Each file in pages/ represent a unique page. A page may have a frontmatter at the top which is written in YAML. It is folowed by the actual page content - HTML tree with liquid. The two parts are separated by a ---.
Sample index.html
title: Homepage
draft: false
layout: default.html
tags: [ home ]
---
<h1>This is the homepage</h1>
<p>Loren ipsum</p>
...Layout on the other hand do not contain frontmatter. But layouts can access the contents of the page on which it is being applied to using the content variable and its info using the meta object.
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<title>{{meta.title}}</title>
</head>
<body>
{{imports.header}}
{{content}}
{{imports.footer}}
</body>
</html>Here the imports object is used to access the content of all the imported HTML files. An import file is a plain HTML file which is replaced as-is in a layout or a page.
<div class="header">
<ul>
<li>Home</li>
<li>Blogs</li>
<li>Gallery</li>
<li>Contacts</li>
</ul>
</div>Apart from that, the page object can be used to access all the pages present in the workspace. It is a list (array) where all the elements are an object having a path property and all the meta data (frontmatter) of that page.
Finally, the contents of the static/ directory is copied as-is to your final generated site. It can be used to keep JavaScript files, CSS files, icons, images etc.
In order to generate the website, simply run the CLI:
iceageTo run the CLI in live-reload mode which hosts the website in a web server and hot reloads it based on changes:
iceage --reloadOptionally, --open flag may be used to automatically open the browser window pointing to the URL where the website is hosted.