SimpleSites - A very simple static site generator

Requirements

SimpleSites depends on luafilesystem and markdown.lua Both are available through luarocks: [sudo] luarocks install markdown [sudo] luarocks install luafilesystem

About

SimpleSites, when run in the root dir, assembles templates, inserts .md content and saves the output to the public directory.

Templates can contain lua code which will be run inside {{ double curly brackets }}

Quickstart

~/$ mkdir website
~/$ SimpleSites website/
Couldn't find the right directory structure. Would you like to create it in this dir:
'/home/user/website'?  (y/n)
y
Generating new project...                                                                          
Done! Open content/index.md to get started.
~/$ nano website/content/index.md
~/$ SimpleSites website/
Writing         /public/index.html
# Your site has been built! You should be able to serve directly from the /public directory.

Find an example website built using SimpleSites here.

++TODO++ * Lots more testing

Example file structure:

	root
	| -- public
	|	|--[final output .html]
	|
	| -- content
	|	| -- index.md
	|	| -- posts
	|	|	| -- post1.md
	|	|	| -- post2.md
	|	| -- about.md
	|
	| -- templates
	|	| -- index.html
	|	| -- _default.html
	|	| -- posts
	|	|	| -- _default.html
	|	| -- head.html
	|	| -- menubar.html
	|	| -- footer.html
	|
	| -- static
	|	| -- style.css
	|	| -- images
	|	|	| -- catpic.jpg

Example index.html template

{{ return templates.head }}
{{ return templates.menubar }}

{{ return content.auto.text --finds the matching .md based on filesystem }}

{{
	local output = ""
	
	for name, post in pairs(content.posts) do
	
	-- ### [<POST TITLE>](<URL>)\n<POST TEXT FOLLOWING POST TITLE UP TO 144 CHARS>
	
		output = output .. "### ["..post.title.."](".."./posts/"..name..".html)\n\"..post.text:match("#.-\n(.*)"):sub(1, 144))
		
	end
	
	return output
}}

{{ return templates.footer }}