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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 html output is in ../<directory_name>_html
  13 4. your gemini without frontmatter output is in ../<directory_name>_gemini
  14
  15 So for example:
  16
  17 ```
  18 $ pwd
  19 /home/rbdr/web/website
  20 $ page
  21 $ ls ..
  22 website/
  23 website_html/
  24 website_gemini/
  25 ```
  26
  27 ## Front Matter
  28
  29 You can add some optional front matter. We'll look at the two first lines that
  30 start with `---`
  31
  32 The format is:
  33
  34 ```
  35 --- title: the title of the page
  36 --- description: a description
  37 ```
  38
  39 This only works if they are the first lines of the page.
  40
  41 ## Local Path Translation
  42
  43 Links that end with `.gmi` will be replaced with `.html` unless they specifically start with `gemini:`
  44
  45 ## Layouts
  46
  47 page expects a file called _layout.html in the root. It expects three placeholders:
  48
  49 * {{ content }} the generated HTML from parsing the gemini text files.
  50 * {{ title }} the frontmatter title or an empty string.
  51 * {{ description }} the frontmatter description or an empty string.
  52
  53
  54 ## Hidden folders
  55
  56 Hidden folders are copied as well, we only make an exception for `.git/`, and
  57 `.gitignore` which are explicitly ignored. This is handy for folders like
  58 `.well-known`, but could cause unwanted behavior if there's other hidden files
  59 in the directory.
  60
  61 ## What happens to files that aren't gemini?
  62
  63 They're copied as-is.
  64
  65 # Building
  66
  67 This project is built using cargo. A makefile is provided to run common tasks.
  68
  69 Build dev version with `make` or `make build`.
  70
  71 Build release with `make -e profile=release` or `make -e profile=release build`.
  72