Vowel

Markdown websites in milliseconds

• Bundled with Votive
• Served with Voot

See the docs: vowel.cc.

Roadmap

Launch checklist

• [x] CLI

• [x] Docs

• [x] Classes

• [x] Route patterns

• [x] Post list metadata

• [.] Transaction management

• [.] Fixes

  • [x] Global nav sublinks
  • [x] Hot reload
  • [.] Explicit asset handling
  • [.] Change "job" to "resources"
    • [.] ReadResource types
  • [.] Processor utilities param
  • [.] Delete old SQLite logic
  • [.] Make metadata explicit in SQLiteTarget type
  • [x] Add SQLite begin/commit logic
  • [.] Remove "loadDatabase"
  • [.] Check all types

• [.] File handling

  • [x] CSS prefixing
  • [x] Homepage in global nav
  • [x] Metadata in header
  • [x] Page list sort
  • [.] Limit in sort

• [x] Metafiles

  • [x] Robots.txt
  • [x] Sitemap.xml
  • [x] RSS
  • [ ] 404.html (just make 404.md)

• [ ] Markup

  • [.] Image as figure
  • [x] Admonitions
  • [x] Heading anchors
  • [ ] GFM emoji
  • [ ] Mermaid
  • [x] Slogan
  • [x] TOC

• [ ] Non-urgent fixes / improvements

  • [ ] Compare metadata on file update
  • [x] Prune/cleanup step
  • [ ] Dependency type (file, settings, folder)

• [ ] New systems

  • [ ] Tags
  • [ ] External links
  • [ ] Syntax highlighting
  • [ ] Social links

High priority

• [x] Global nav
• [x] Breadcrumbs
• [x] Page classes
• [ ] GetMany "path exists" filter
• [ ] GetMany "extension" filter
• [ ] Delete settings logic
• [ ] Update settings logic
• [ ] Logical operators for filters
• [ ] Customize menus
• [ ] More file handling plugins
  • [ ] Fonts
    • [x] .woff
    • [x] .woff2
    • [x] .ttf
    • [x] .otf
    • [ ] Handling
  • [ ] Images
    • [x] .png
    • [x] .jpg
    • [x] .jpeg
    • [x] .webp
    • [x] .gif
    • [ ] Formatting
  • [ ] Icons
    • [x] .ico
  • [ ] Vectors
    • [x] .svg
  • [ ] Styles
    • [x] .css
    • [x] Bundling
  • [ ] PDFs
  • [ ] Videos
  • [ ] Arbitrary data
• [x] Add homepage to global nav
• [x] Page lists
• [x] Dates
• [x] robots.txt
• [x] sitemap.xml
• [ ] 404.html
• [ ] Better URL normalization (see notes)
• [x] Name casing
• [x] TUI
  • [x] Create settings.md
    • [x] Site title
    • [x] Domain
    • [ ] Webmentions
    • [x] Logo
    • [x] Wordmark
    • [ ] Identity (rel=me)
    • [x] Filename breadcrumbs
    • [x] RSS
    • [x] Sitemap
  • [x] Create home.md
  • [ ] Create folder settings files
    • [ ] Title
    • [ ] Breadcrumb
• [ ] Remove index file rules
• [x] Custom CSS
  • [x] styles.css
  • [ ] Any CSS file
• [ ] Tags
• [ ] Date format settings
• [ ] ::mark::
• [x] Infer images
• [ ] Favicon
• [-] Webmentions
• [x] HTML boilerplate
• [ ] View transitions
• [x] Logo
• [x] Wordmark
• [ ] Sort nav items
• [ ] Canonical URL
• [ ] Handle external links
• [x] Admonitions
• [ ] Use hgroup for site title, page title, etc
• [ ] Images as <figure>
• [ ] Hidden routes
• [ ] Frontmatter settings
  • [ ] HTML
  • [ ] RSS
  • [ ] Sitemap
• [x] Heading anchors
• [ ] Taxonomy pages and smart frontmatter
• [x] CSS cache busting
• [x] Slogan in homepage title
• [ ] GFM emojis (:smile:)

Medium priority

• [ ] Tests
• [ ] Internal backlinks
• [ ] Break code into multiple files
• [ ] Image optimization (unpic)
• [ ] SVG by mask and CSS icons
• [ ] WYSIWYG editor
• [ ] Better signals
  • [ ] File-written callback
• [ ] Themes
• [ ] Deploy
  • [ ] Cloudflare pages
  • [ ] GitHub pages
• [-] Post-publish work (ping webmentions)
• [ ] Desktop app
• [ ] Mermaid
• [ ] Codeblock syntax highlighting
• [ ] Extraction utilities (regex in archive)
• [ ] Smarter frontmatter
  • [ ] Object dl
  • [ ] Array ul
  • [ ] Image
  • [ ] URL
  • [ ] Date
• [ ] TOC
• [ ] Versioning/publishing script
• [ ] Verify all element types from Obsidian
• [ ] Order/position/kanban
• [ ] Next/prev links
• [ ] Banner
• [ ] CTA
• [ ] Menu toggle
• [ ] Icons sets
• [ ] Auto-icons (:fa-rocket:)
• [ ] Frontmatter icons

Low priority

• [ ] Footnotes
• [ ] Frontmatter taxonomies
• [ ] Recursive frontmatter
• [ ] Browser search
• [ ] Pagination
• [ ] Dialogue/spoiler alert
• [ ] Copy code button
• [ ] Tabbed element
• [ ] Multi-lingual
• [ ] Routing rules (see notes)
• [ ] ATProto
  • [ ] Liking
  • [ ] Commenting
• [ ] More inferred properties
  • [ ] Email
  • [ ] Phone number
  • [ ] Location
  • [ ] Color
  • [ ] Price
  • [ ] ISBN
• Contact form
• Subscription form
• Faceted search

Notes and questions

rel=author? rel=bookmark? rel=external?

Annotations (see notes)

Interactivity (see notes)

Calculated properties?

OG tags to consider:

  
  /*
    og:type - The type of your object, e.g., "video.movie". Depending on the type you specify, other properties may also be required.
    og:locale - The locale these tags are marked up in. Of the format language_TERRITORY. Default is en_US.
    article:published_time - datetime - When the article was first published.
    article:modified_time - datetime - When the article was last changed.
    article:expiration_time - datetime - When the article is out of date after.
    article:author - profile array - Writers of the article.
    article:section - string - A high-level section name. E.g. Technology
    article:tag - string array - Tag words associated with this article.
  */