StephenKoller / aloe

Deno SSG

🪴 Aloe

Easy-care Deno SSG

Goals

• core:

  • rapid Markdown to HTML conversion
  • automatic cross-linking
  • front matter
  • image handling
  • template language(s) support?
    • Nunjucks?
    • Pug?
    • MDX?
    • Handlebars?
    • Liquid?
    • EJS?
  • layout partials?
  • reusable components?
  • easy theming?
  • i18n?
  • a11y?
  • Brotli compression
  • SEO features
  • test coverage

• DX/UX:

  • easy installation
    • interactive CLI
    • install script
  • excellent documentation
    • well written
    • search built-in
  • authoring experience
    • hot reload dev server
    • intelligent defaults
    • flexibility in configuration
    • 'create new page / post' script for fast boilerplate generation
      • slugify the title, make a new directory, paste the source
      • pre-populate front matter with title, description, publish date, etc.
  • deploy / publish experience
    • impeccable speed
    • incremental build feature
    • multi-threading?
    • one-button deploy command to Deno Deploy

• stretch:

  • AlpineJS integration?
  • Obsidian plugin
  • VS Code plugin

Documentation

• Installation
• Getting Started
• Project Structure
• Examples
  • personal blog
  • documentation site
  • product landing page
  • creative portfolio site