frost-gen
v0.1.0-b
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🚀 A static site generator.
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🚀 A static site generator.
Features
- Super lightweight & I mean it.
- Easy & simple configuration.
- Custom, easy to understand and fast templating engine.
- What else could you possibly want?
Installation
- with npm (Preferred)
npm i -g frost-genUsage
Simple
- Run it on your local machine
$ frost --serve- Build the static site
$ frost -- build
Configuration
To configure frost, by default you use frost.json as the configuration file in the root of your project.
To overwrite the custom configuration file, you can use --config {file}.json as a CLI Option, while serving or building the website.
Here is the default schema used by frost
{
"srcDir": "source",
"buildDir": "build",
"staticDir": "static",
"HTMLcompressionLevel": 2
}
srcDir - It is the source directory of the project where all the templates/pages are stored.
buildDir - Specifies the export directory on build.
staticDir - Directory where the static files are stored.
HTMLcompressionLevel - The amount of compression you want the build to incurr
metadataFile - The file wher the metadata is stored.
Metadata
By default the metadata file for frost is frost.metadata.json, containing all the metadata/variables required in your project.
It can be overwritten using the CLI at anytimes.
Example
Here's an example usage:
frost.metadata.json
{
"author": "rhydderchc"
}
index.frost
<body>
<p> The Author is:</p>
<p>
<frost>author</frost>
</p>
</body>
output( on build )
<body>
<p> The Author is:</p>
<p>
rhydderchc
</p>
</body>
Templating with the frost engine
Frost has it's own built-in templating engine, using a html-like syntax with added features.
- Rendering Markdown Yes, with the frost engine you can render markdown with ease.
<p>
<frost markdown> # This is a template </frost>
</p>Including an external markdown file
<p> #include "./mark.md" </p>Using TypeScript With frost's engine, using typescript is a piece of cake.
<p>
<frost typescript> let a: string = "Hello World"</frost>
<frost> a </frost>
</p>- Including Typescript Files
<p>
#include "./hello.ts"
</p>Extensions
- Frost-vsc - A Visual studio code extention for frost.