A simple static site generator using nodejs
You will need NodeJS installed.
Then clone this repository or download it on zip and uncompress the file.
Then change the name of the folder to the name of your application.
Then you enter the folder in command line and install all the dependencies with yarn or npm i.
After that, you just start the application with yarn start or npm start. This will start a process with nodemon to compile your site on any change and will start a parallel proccess with a live server that will serve your compiled site on http://127.0.0.1:8080/, opening a browser automatically.
Now you can follow the next instructions to create your site under src folder.
Put your pages (home, about us, etc...) into the root of src folder as plain html files. Please check the src/index.html and src/about-us.html files to see examples.
Put your components into src/components folder as plain html files. Please check the sample files in src/components to check how to do it.
Simple Static Generator uses a very simple templating notation in the html of the pages. To insert a component in a specific file, put a tag with this format:
{{ component }}
where component is the name of the file where the component is defined.
In the files src/index.html and src/about-us.html you can find the {{ header }} tag. That tag is going to be replaced with the content of the file src/components/header.html.
It's important to maintain the same case in the tag and the filename of the file containing the component. It's very important to let a space between the curly braces and the component tag. {{ header }} will work, while {{header}} won't.
You just need to upload your dist folder to your server.
If you have been using the live server started with yarn start or npm start, then your site is already compiled on dist.
If you have been developing without the live server, then you can just run yarn start for the site to be compiled.
You can ask anything or send comments directly to my email juanlucha at the big G dot com :)