pod-build is a local development environment for podcast publishing.

It uses open technologies and opinionated defaults to generate a hostable podcast feed bundle.

Input: config.json with accompanying content directory.
Output: Hostable public directory.

Generator transforms a Config object (usually imported from config.json) into a Channel object, which contains formatted and validated field text for the elements of a standard podcast feed's XML (RSS) file. The generator is designed to be extendable. The referenced media files are copied from the local content folder to public/media.

The RSS writer RSS.writeRSS() outputs the channel's state in XML format with podcast feed headers. By default, this file is written to public/rss.xml.

SiteBuilder builds a static site in public, creating each page specified in the podcast fields.

generator: { ... }

channel: { ... }

domain: Host domain for links.

title: Title of feed

pubDate: Publication date of this version of the feed (any string recognized by Date)

copyright: Copyright/License declaration

Title of feed (plain text)

Publication date of this version of the feed (RFC2822 string)

URL of the host domain (URL string)

Copyright/License declaration (plain text)

Name and version of this generator

Link to a documentation page. docs.html hosted at HOST/docs

• Expand documentation on dev side (this doc) and user-facing (/docs.html)
• Allow more flexibility for configuration - right now, the defaults are the only way to do some things