Less that 100 lines of Python that will take your Jinja2 templates and build them into a static site.
There already are lots of static site generators. However, I found most of them to be overkill for the small sites I need to make from time to time. Also, most of them impose too much structure on your project and require lots of configuration. Some even try to be your website and include lots of fanciness that is simply unnecessary when you are writing a small site.
The only structure this script requires your project to have is as following:
- Place
render.pyin your project's root directory - Create
src/templatesandsrc/staticdirectories - When you run
render.py, the output will be inbuild
Jinja2 templates should be placed in src/templates. Any .html, .jinja2 or .tmpl file in src/templates will go through the Jinja2 processor.
Processed files will be copied into build, preserving the structure of your src/templates directory.
Anything you don't want to be preprocessed by Jinja2 should go in src/static.
These files will be copied straight into the build directory, preserving directory structure.
This script basically just runs all your templates through Jinja2, it doesn't really do anything special besides that. However, all your templates will be passed a tree variable that contains all the names of all the files in your templates directory.
This can be used to dynamically generate indices and read variables from other templates, for example.