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1 # page
2
3 A static website generator for exactly 1 use case.
4
5 "I have a bunch of gemini files that I want to serve as-is, but I also
6 want to generate some HTML"
7
8 ## How to use
9
10 1. Stand on the directory you want to turn into a page
11 2. run page
12 3. your output is in ../<directory_name>_html
13
14 So for example:
15
16 ```
17 $ pwd
18 /home/rbdr/web/website
19 $ page
20 $ ls ..
21 website/
22 website_html/
23 ```
24
25 ## Front Matter
26
27 You can add some optional front matter. We'll look at the two first lines that
28 start with `---`
29
30 The format is:
31
32 ```
33 --- title: the title of the page
34 --- description: a description
35 ```
36
37 This only works if they are the first lines of the page.
38
39 ## Local Path Translation
40
41 Links that end with `.gmi` will be replaced with `.html` unless they specifically start with `gemini:`
42
43 ## Layouts
44
45 page expects a file called _layout.html in the root. It expects three placeholders:
46
47 * {{ content }} the generated HTML from parsing the gemini text files.
48 * {{ title }} the frontmatter title or an empty string.
49 * {{ description }} the frontmatter description or an empty string.
50
51
52 ## Hidden folders
53
54 Hidden folders are copied as well, we only make an exception for `.git/`, and
55 `.gitignore` which are explicitly ignored. This is handy for folders like
56 `.well-known`, but could cause unwanted behavior if there's other hidden files
57 in the directory.
58
59 ## What happens to files that aren't gemini?
60
61 They're copied as-is.
62
63 # Building
64
65 This project is built using cargo. A makefile is provided to run common tasks.
66
67 Build dev version with `make` or `make build`.
68
69 Build release with `make -e profile=release` or `make -e profile=release build`.