unfold

A data-driven static site generator.

• Supports handlebars templates.
• Supports custom partials and helpers for handlebars.
• Supports SASS now with Autoprefixer!

Usage: unfold site.json

NPM script example (package.json in your project):

"build": "unfold site.json"

The site.json file should look like:

{
    "sourceDirectory": "src",
    "destinationDirectory": "dest",
    "dataDirectory": "data",
    "partialsDirectory": "partials",
    "helpersDirectory": "helpers",
    "data": {
        "layout": "layout.html.hbs"
    }
    "pages": {
        "src/specialPage.html.hbs": {
            "layout": "specialLayout.html.hbs"
        }
    }
}

Site Specification

sourceDirectory: The directory storing the original version of the site. Handlebars templates and SASS files in this directory will be processed and output to destinationDirectory. All other files will be copied to destinationDirectory unmodified.

destinationDirectory: The "unfolded" output version of the site.

dataDirectory: All JSON files in this directory will be merged into the data field with a key of their filename without the .json.

partialsDirectory: A directory containing Handlebars partials. Example: a file named _something.html.hbs will be loaded as a partial named something and available for use in handlebars as {{>something}}.

helpersDirectory: A directory containing handlebars helpers. Example: a file named something.js will be loaded as a helper named something and available for use in handlebars as {{something}}. Helper files should export a single function.

data: Data available to the handlebars templates. layout is a special key that specifies a layout template to wrap around the current file. The handlebars file specified in layout should contain a reference to the {{>body}} partial where the current page will be loaded.

pages: Per-page data that overrides keys in data and is made available to handlebars templates.