crock / WebDevShowcase

demo project for a custom-made static site generator

Web Dev Showcase - Custom SSG Demo

Web Dev Showcase is a showcase and archive of the top-ranked web developer portfolios as indexed by Google.

This project is a demonstration of how to build a static site generator (SSG) from scratch using Python.

Pre-Requisites

Please make sure you install xvfb before completing the setup steps below. On Linux, this can be done with the following command:

sudo apt-get install xvfb

On macOS, you can install it through downloading and installing the XQuartz installer.

Setup

1. Create a Python virtual environment

   python -m venv venv/

2. Activate the virtual environment

   source venv/bin/activate

3. Install the requirements

   pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Run the build script

   python build.py

Other Commands

These don't need to be run manually, but are here for reference.

venv/bin/webscreenshot -i data/20240407-domains.txt -r phantomjs --renderer-binary bin/phantomjs -o screenshots/20240407 --crop "0,0,1280,720" -f "jpg" -v