This has been retired. Please check out my new blog here.
This is my personal website in which I will be posting different articles about various topics I like most.
I am generating a static website using my own interpreter. It can be found in build.py and it employs the idea of using components to reuse html snippets (check src/components). You can read about it on the blog itself, here.
First, create a folder in post. The name of the folder will be the link of the generated page.
Then, create a .html file and a meta.txt file.
In the .html you should write your article and inside the meta.txt you will need to format the info as such:
Title of article
Date of article
UTC Timestamp of article in seconds
Description for embeds
To use components, you must first create a file inside the components/ folder and then, inside your templates (or even other component files) you will need to type
<mycomponent/>
and it will simply be replaced with the contents of the file. It's also recursive, so you can have a component inside another component.
Components also support arguments. To create such component, you will need to provide some argument placeholders as such:
link.html
<a href="$$1$$">$$2$$</a>
home.html
My github is <mylink(https://github.com/extremq|Extremq)/>.
The format is <my + Component name (name of file) + (argument1|argument2|argument3...) (optional) + />.
In the .env file there will always be a __DATE__ that's always updated when the site is generated. You can use any environment variable in the html using this format:
__MYVAR__
Make sure to write it in this way inside the .env file:
MYVAR='cheese'
After you're done with that, you can choose to render only that page or all the pages by using python ./build.py --file name-of-folder or python ./build.py --f name-of-folder. Providing no flags will generate all the pages instead.