Statica

Statica is a roots v3 plugin that converts boring .html files into pretty links. The new links are transformed based on your directory structure and file naming.

Basically it helps you drop the .html by transforming blog/some-article.html to blog/some-article/index.html so you can link straight to blog/some-article. It will also update the pages url at compile time so any dependent links will not be affected.

Statica is helpful if you are building a simple html based site (say for github pages) with roots but you want to keep your links pretty.

Note: This plugin is in early development and as such is not considered stable. Early releases may change significantly.

Setup

In your app.coffee make sure you require statica and add it to the extension list.

statica = require 'statica'

module.exports =
  extensions: [statica()]

For local development purposes you can set relative linking to true. This will remove the leading / from any generated links. It is not recomended for production as it will not resolve nested links to the project root. This is really only helpful if you're wanting to load up your html files locally without roots.

statica = require 'statica'

module.exports =
  extensions: [statica({
    relative: true
  })]

##Gotchas There are a few things to watch out for.

• Hard coded links are not be updated. This plugin works great with roots dynamic content as it is able to access and update a files url to match it's new location allowing proper linking. However, with static content it cannot do the same. So please keep in mind how this plugin transforms pages when adding any hard coded links.
• If you have a file blog.html and another blog/index.html you will get a error alerting you to a collision. Statica will stop roots compiling to let you resolve this conflict.