The next static site generator

Please note that this project is currently under development. Contributions are pretty welcome!

Harmonic is being developed with some goals:

Learn and play with ES6 (in node and the browser)
Build a simple static site generator in node using ES6 features
Create the ES6 Rocks website with Harmonic! (Actually, the website is already online ES6Rocks)

Check out the full documentation in Harmonic's Wiki: https://github.com/es6rocks/harmonic/wiki/

Installing

Attention:
Harmonic uses some ES6 features. You'll need to instal node 0.11.* version.
NVM or n is a good approach to have multiple node versions and do not break any existent node software that you already have installed.

Harmonic is avaiable on npm:

npm install harmonic -g

For more details, check out the full documentation: Installing

Init

First thing you'll need to do is initialize a new Harmonic website.
Simply:

harmonic init [PATH]

[PATH] is your website dir. The default path is the current dir.
Harmonic will prompt you asking for some data about your website:

The Harmonic config file is a simple JSON object.
Any time you want, you can configure your static website with the CLI config command:

cd [PATH]
harmonic config

Now, enter in your website dir and start creating posts, etc.
For more details, check out the full documentation: Config

Blogging

Harmonic follow the pattern of others static site generators you may know.
You must write your posts in Markdown format.

New post:

cd your_awesome_website
harmonic new_post "Hello World"

After running new_post, the markdown file will be generated in /src/posts/ folder.

Markdown header

The markdown file have a header which defines the post meta-data.
Example:

<!--
layout: post
title: hello world
date: 2014-05-17T08:18:47.847Z
comments: true
published: true
keywords: JavaScript, ES6
description: Hello world post
categories: JavaScript, ES6
authorName: Jaydson
-->

You can check all possible header values in the header page.

Markdown content

Everything after the header is the post content.
Exemple:

# Hello World  
This is my awesome post using [harmonic](https://github.com/es6rocks/harmonic).  

This is a list:  
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3

The code above will be parsed to something like this:

<h1 id="hello-world">Hello World</h1>
<p>
  This is my awesome post using 
  <a href="https://github.com/es6rocks/harmonic">harmonic</a>.
</p>
<p>This is a list:  </p>
<ul>
<li>Item 1</li>
<li>Item 2</li>
<li>Item 3</li>
</ul>

For more details, you can check the full documentation: Blogging.

Build

The build tool will generate the index page, posts, pages, categories, compile styles and ES6.

harmonic build

Run

To run your static server:

harmonic run

You can specify an port, by default Harmonic will use the 9356 port:

harmonic run 9090

Help

harmonic --help

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