mylly

Mylly (finnish for mill) is an opinionated static site generator using specific set of Node modules to automate tedious and repetitive tasks.

Install

npm install mylly --save-dev

Features

• Compiles Nunjucks templates.
• Compiles markdown.
• Validates HTML files according to W3C standards.
• Lints and compiles Sass stylesheets.
• Removes unused CSS styles.
• Concatenates, minifies and lints JavaScript files.
• Resizes images and optimizes images.
• Generates browserconfig.xml.
• Generates sitemap.xml.
• Revisions files.
• BrowserSync development server.
• Build report.

Upcoming features

• Compile ES6/ES7 code to ES5 using Babel.
• CSS and JS sourcemaps.
• SEO report.
• Page speed report.
• Generate multisize favicon.ico from multiple png files.
• Offline HTML validation.

Usage

var mylly = require('mylly');
 
// Create a mylly instance with path to configuration file.
var prod = mylly('./mylly.prod.js');
 
// Optionally create another drudge instance with other configuration.
var dev = mylly('./mylly.dev.js');
 
// Note that you also pass in a configuration object directly.
var dev2 = mylly(Object.assign(require('./mylly.prod.js'), {
  buildPath: './devbuild',
  dist: './devdist',
  collectAssets: null,
  minifyJs: null,
  minifyHtml: null,
  cleanCss: null,
  minifyCss: null,
  sitemap: null,
  browserconfig: null,
  generateImages: null,
  optimizeimages: null,
  browsersync: {
    server: {
      baseDir: './devdist'
    },
    reloadOnRestart: true,
    injectChanges: false
  }
}));
 
// Clones the default source directory and configuration file to your project
// root.
prod.init();
 
// Build the dist directory.
prod.build();
 
// Start up a local development server.
prod.server();
 
// You can have multiple instances running simultaneously as long as you
// configure browsersync to use different ports.
dev.server();

Configuration

Coming up...

License

Copyright © 2015 Niklas Rämö. Licensed under the MIT license.