Plenti

Static Site Generator with Go backend and Svelte frontend

Requirements:exclamation:

~~You must have NodeJS version 13 or newer~~ As of v0.2.0 you no longer need NodeJS, Go, or any dependency other than Plenti itself.

Installation 💾

Homebrew:

Add the tap: brew tap plentico/homebrew-plenti
Install: brew install plenti

Snap:

Install: snap install plenti

Scoop (Windows is not supported yet, see details):

Add the bucket: scoop bucket add plenti https://github.com/plentico/scoop-plenti
Install: scoop install plenti

Manual:

Download the latest release
Move it somewhere in your PATH (most likely /usr/local/bin)

Getting Started 🚀

Create a new site: plenti new site my-new-site
Move into the folder you created: cd my-new-site
Start up the development server: plenti serve
Navigate to the site in your browser: localhost:3000

Learning the Basics 🎓

Documentation: https://plenti.co/docs

Types

The content/ folder in a project is where all your data lives (in JSON format). This is typically divided into multiple subfolders that define your types. Types are just a way to group content of a similar structure. Individual files inside a type are very flexible, in fact you can define any field schema you'd like and there are no required keys. Even though files may be grouped together as a type, they can actually have variability between them in terms of their field structure - just make sure you account for this in your corresponding layout/content/ files!

Single file types: Anything that appears at the first level within the content folder is a type. This can include single files such as index.json and 404.json, which are also types, but only have a one-off data source. You can define your own single file types this way if you'd like.

Blueprints: There is an optional, special named file that goes inside your individual type folders named _blueprint.json. This defines the default field schema for that specific type. The keys of the blueprint correspond to field names used in the content files and the values tell the kind of field that is being used. TODO: Currently the blueprint doesn't do much and there is no list of standardized values, but in the future this will be fleshed out and it will aid in generating scaffoling and tying into the cms (see plentico#15).

Paths: The endpoint nodes for your pages (of whatever Type) will be defined by your data source. By default this corresponds to the structure of folders and files in your content/ folder, for example:

content/index.json = https://example.com/
content/blog/post1.json = https://example.com/blog/post1
content/events/event1.json = https://example.com/events/event1

You can overide the default path structure in the site's configuration file (plenti.json). For example if you had a Type called pages and you wanted it to appear at the top level of the site and not in the format https://example.com/pages/page1, you could add the following to plenti.json:

"types": {
  "pages": "/:filename"
}

This would allow a content file located at content/pages/page1.json to appear in the following format: https://example.com/page1.

You can use any custom key that you define in your content source, e.g. :title, :date, etc in your path, for example:

"types": {
  "blog": "/blog/:field(author)/:field(title)"
}

If you want to have a content source without a path (no node endpoint that site visitors can access), simply delete the corresponding svelte template in layout/content/. You can do this automatically use the "endpoint" flag when creating a new type, for example: plenti new type YOUR_TYPE --endpoint=false

Layout

All the templating is done in "disappearing" JS component framework called Svelte. Svelte offers a simplified syntax and creates a welcoming developer experience for folks coming directly from an HTML/CSS background. It also offers some performance benefits over similar frameworks since it doesn't require a virtual dom and its runtime is rather small.

layout/global/html.svelte: This file is important and changing its name will break your app. You could also potentially break your routing if you're not careful with <svelte:component this={route} {...node.fields} {allNodes} />. Once you're aware of those two things, this file shouldn't be too scary and is meant for you to customize.

layout/content/: Files that live in this folder correspond directly to the Types defined in your content source. For example if you have blog Type (content/blog/post-whatever.json) you would create a corresponding template at layout/content/blog.svelte. One template should be used per Type and it will feed many content files to create individual nodes (endpoints).

The rest of the structure is really up to you. We try to create logical default folders, such as layout/components/for reusable widgets and layout/scripts/ for helper functions, but feel free to completely change these and make the structure your own.

Contributing 💜

Plenti is brand new and needs to be test driven a bit to work out the kinks. If you find bugs or have any questions, please open a new issue to let us know! Thank you for being patient while Plenti grows 🌱

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