Tox

With Tox you can create node.js websites with markdown files. All your content will be stored in the markdown files you create. Tox is design to work with Express, but it will work without a framework and also with any other node.js web framework. It supports yaml inside three dashes --- section at the start and at the end in the header of the markdown file.

Install Tox

npm install tox

Tox with Express

This example is using Express 3.

var express = require('express')
  , app = express()
  , tox = require('tox');
 
app.engine('html', require('ejs').renderFile);
app.set('views', 'path/to/views')
app.set('view engine', 'html');
 
// Set tox options
tox.set({
  path: 'path/to/markdown',
  viewFile: 'page'
});
 
app.get('/*', tox.page);
 
app.listen(4000);

Tox without Express

This example is using the standard node http server. tox.page will return an object containing all yaml properties and the tox property containing the html code.

var http = require('http')
  , tox = require('tox');
  
tox.set('path', 'path/to/markdown');
 
http.createServer(function (req, res) {
  res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/html'});
  res.end(tox.page(req.url).tox);
}).listen(4000);

Options

tox.set(obj) can take an object with options or key/value argument. You can get option via tox.get(key).

• path - Set the path where the markdown files is stored
• startPage - Filename of the start page file without extension. Default index.
• ext - Set file extension. Default md.
• notFound - Filename of the not found file without extension. Default 404.
• exclude - Array containing filenames to exclude.

Express related options

• viewFile - The default view file to use.
• viewFiles - Change view files depending on route. Use /* if every child page will use the same view file instead of the viewFile.

tox.set({
  viewFiles: {
      'about' : 'about',
      'page/*': 'page'
  }
});

Running tests

npm install
make

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2013 Fredrik Forsmo <[e-mail]>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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