generator-simple-static-blog

Yeoman generator for creating a simple static blog. It includes a static search system, powered by Lunr.js.

To see an example of this blogging system in the wild, visit my site.

Getting Started

To install generator-simple-static-blog from npm, run:

npm install -g generator-simple-static-blog

Then, run the generator:

yo simple-static-blog

Features

The blog offers comments using either Disqus or Facebook comments. This can be configured when you first set up your blog.

It also includes AddThis integration.

Sub-generators

This generator has two sub-generators:

yo simple-static-blog:post

This will create a new blog post.

yo simple-static-blog:page

This will create a new page.

Using these two generators makes it easy to create however many posts or pages you wish.

Grunt tasks

There are three Grunt tasks included:

• grunt builds the site - however, in practice you will probably never need to call this as the other tasks also call it.
• grunt serve builds the site and calls the development server, with live reload included so that you can see new content immediately.
• grunt deploy builds the site and deploys it to GitHub Pages. However, it's easy to amend it to deploy it using other methods, including:
  • grunt-rsync for syncing to a server with shell access (I have used this to deploy to a Raspberry Pi)
  • grunt-bitbucket-pages for pushing the site to Bitbucket Pages (this is very easy to configure and works well)
  • grunt-ftp-deploy if you only have FTP access

License

MIT