YuukanOO / kawax

An easy static site generator in approximatively 250 lines of code

kawax - An easy static site generator

Yeah, I know, You 've already use more than 10 static site generators and you're happy with them until you start thinking why does it do x or y that way and things are going strange. That's why I made kawax! I can't figure how to make this one more simple.

Main goals

• Load data in JSON files
• No configuration, just use json files as with any other data
• Transform Markdown files to HTML
• Apply templates using EJS
• Copy other assets as it
• Keep the directory structure!!

Installation & Usage

npm install -g kawax && kawax -h

Theme data

When processing a page, in your .ejs file, you will have access to the following properties:

• page: Represents the current page
  • title: Title of the page
  • path: Path of the page
  • content: Content of the page
  • And any other meta added via front matter
• pages: All pages of your site as an array of page
• All data read from your json files

And the following commands:

• copy(src, dest): Will copy the file src (relative to the theme directory) to dest (relative to the build directory). You must provide the filename too. Mostly use to copy assets such as css <link href="<%= copy('style.css', '/public/main.css') %>" rel="stylesheet">.

Please note that each markdown file will be generated in its own folder to generates pretty urls.

Don't hesitate to look in the example folder ;)