SSGo

A simple Static Site Generator built using Go language.

Lets you generate HTML files from either a single .txt file or multiple .txt files in a given directory.

Preview of generated HTML is available at https://devils2ndself.github.io/SSGo.

Installation

In order to install SSGo, please first install Go.

Use go install github.com/devils2ndself/SSGo@latest in order to install SSGo to your local machine.

Usage

• ssgo --input [in] --output [out] - Generate HTML from .txt or .md file at in path (can be a single .txt or .md file, or directory) to out path.
  --output is optional, the default out is dist folder in the current directory

• ssgo --config [cfg] - Uses the options from .json configuration file at cfg path to specify options.

• ssgo --version - Display installed version of SSGo

• ssgo --help - Display detailed help message

Please note, that if built locally, some users will need to use ./ssgo instead of ssgo.

Also, please be aware that shorthand flags, like -i, take as the argument everything that follows that character, i.e. -info will be understood as -i nfo. It's not me, it's the standards :/

Features

• Generates HTML files for each .txt or .md file in input.

• Encloses every paragraph of text separated by a blank line in <p> tag.

• If the first line of the .txt or .md file is followed by 2 empty lines, it will be used as a title. The <title> will be assigned to it and it will be enclosed into <h1> tag instead of regular <p> - optional feature #1.

• The name of the generated HTML files will be the same as the original .txt or .md files.

• Also provides a cool style to generate HTML - optional feature #6.

• Generated files go to dist folder unless any other path is specified with --output flag. If the new output path does not exist, it will create a new directory to accommodate - optional feature #2.

• If the output directory is path, each time new text is used for HTML generation, the directory will be wiped completely. Be careful, don't lose valuable files there!

• If --output is specified, the directory at path will not be erased like with dist folder. Just in case someone specifies --output C:\...

• If --config is specified, SSG options can be supplied through a .json configuration file instead of through the command-line.

Markdown Features

These feaures are supported for files with an extension of '.md'

• Lines beginning with "# ", "## " will be wrapped within an h1 and h2 tags respectively: # This is heading 1 becomes <h1>This is heading 1</h1>

• Lines that contain only -, *, or _ in quantity of 3 or more will be a horizontal rule: --- becomes <hr>

• Any text that is contained within ` characters will be wrapped within <code> tag: some code becomes <code>some code</code>

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING.md.

License

MIT