n8225 / awesome-selfhosted-gen

Repo for https://n8225.github.io/awesome-selfhosted-gen/

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Awesome selfhosted

The "awesome-selfhosted" website generator.

Static website generated from the markdown list at https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted

How

To generate the static files to run this site:

• Install Go

  • https://golang.org/doc/install

• Get your GitHub API token

  • https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-personal-access-token-for-the-command-line/

• Run this

  git clone 
  cd 
  build -o list-gen main.go  //optionally go run main.go
  

• Commands

    ./list-gen -help
  USAGE
    list-gen <subcommand> [flags]
  
  SUBCOMMANDS
    all               Parses README.md into yaml files then generates markdown and json from those yaml files.
    parse             Parses README.md into yaml files. Requires README.md file(-readme_path).
    generate          Generates markdown and json from yaml files. Required flag: -gh_token
    generateMarkdown  Generates markdown from yaml files.
  
  FLAGS
    -clean false                                  Clean all files from list directory.
    -github_token ...                             Token for github API
    -readme_path ../awesome-selfhosted/README.md  Path to README.md; Default: ../awesome-selfhosted/README.md
  

• Most flags may be provided as env vars as well.

  Flag	env var	description
  -github_token	GITHUB_TOKEN	Token for github API
  -readme_path	README_PATH	Path to README.md; Default: ../awesome-selfhosted/README.md

To add an entry from a yaml file:

• Create a .yaml file in the add directory.

• Then:

  ./list-gen generate
  

• NOTE: The GitHub API token is required to utilize GitHub's graphql API.

• TODO:

  • Update static site UI to look better
  • Rewrite static site .js for faster load times
  • Cleanup a lot of code