Kackle was designed to be simple and easily extendible. It came from a desire to have a configurationless site generator not reliant on huge languages or their dependencies. Kackle only requires libraries anyone is going to have laying around their Linux/*BSD system.
Warning I've only ever tested this on my laptop. Your millage may vary.
It's easily setup with a few bash commands and git.
git clone https://github.com/ehouse/kackle my-siteAny folder within src/ that contains a theme/ folder will be treated as a
separate project. Kackle looks for a theme/base.html to use as the theme for
the project. All markdown files will be compiled and placed in /out with their
paths maintained. All files within a /static folder will be copied over
verbatim with /static removed.
A very simple build of the sample website would look like...
[~/my-site]$ make
BUILD src/sample/index.md -> out/sample/index.html
BUILD src/sample/posts/index.md -> out/sample/posts/index.html
COPY src/sample/static/ -> out/sample
CREATE DEV robots.txt -> out/sample/robots.txt
CREATE sitemap.xml -> out/sample/sitemap.xmlTo serve the files locally run make devserver.
Kackle fits two use cases that few other static site generators aim to hit. It's simple, easily hackable and only offers what you see. No fancy bells or whistles to distract you from what matters, writing content.
The Makefile is purely a wrapper around the kackle shell script within the
scripts/ folder. The following command will manually build a folder with a given
template and output to ./output.
./scripts/kackle ./template ./src -o ./outWithin the scripts/ folder lives two files called prebuild.sh and
postbuild.sh. These files will run before and after the build process
respectively when built through the makefile.
v0.1-prerelease :: Decoupled persona site from Kackle. Ready for common use.