blok

A simple static site generator for Pythonista + Editorial on iPad & iPhone: write in Editorial and send to blok.

If you have feedback or actually use this, please let me know! Pull requests welcome.

How it works

In build_site(), each post is read, converted to html, and then added to an html template and written to the output directory.

If in posts/ there's a post 03-05-2015-test-post.markdown, it will be wriiten to OUTPUT_DIR/test-post/index.html.
After the posts are written, a link is added for each post in the main index.html. For the test post above, the link would be /test-post/. This gives nice links with no '.html' on the end.
Next, any CSS files in STATIC_DIR/css are copied to OUTPUT_DIR/css. Links to css files are added in the pervious step.

The css-copying code will probably get made into a function and generalized, so we can copy images and so on.

Editorial workflows:

New post - a UI for making a new post in Editorial. If you tell it to use the existing file, the contents of the file are added to the post metadata, like so:

title: Example title
date: 16-04-2015
slug: example-title
====
(existing file contents here)

Post -> Blok - sends the current post to Blok, where it is added to the posts folder as a markdown file. Then, when the site is built, the post will be included.

Todo

There is currently no built in mechanism for deployment. Since my iPad is jailbroken, I just made a symlink in /var/private/mobile to Pythonista's documents folder, and then from there I can copy things out. Maybe 'githubista' is a possibility for github pages?

cclauss / blok