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+'use strict';
+
+const { template } = require('dot');
+const { readFile, writeFile } = require('fs/promises');
+const { join } = require('path');
+const { debuglog } = require('util');
+
+const internals = {
+ debuglog: debuglog('blog'),
+
+ kIndexName: 'index.html'
+};
+
+/**
+ * Generates the blog index page
+ *
+ * @name HTMLGenerator
+ * @param {string} source the source directory
+ * @param {string} target the target directory
+ * @param {Array.<Blog.tPost>} posts the list of posts
+ */
+module.exports = async function HTMLGenerator(source, target, posts) {
+
+ internals.debuglog('Generating HTML');
+ const indexTarget = join(target, internals.kIndexName);
+ const indexLocation = join(source, internals.kIndexName);
+
+ internals.debuglog(`Reading ${indexLocation}`);
+ const indexTemplate = await readFile(indexLocation, { encoding: 'utf8' });
+
+ internals.debuglog('Writing HTML');
+ const indexHtml = template(indexTemplate)({ posts });
+ await writeFile(indexTarget, indexHtml);
+};
+