A minimal static blog generator.

Run this to install Sold

$ npm install sold -g

1. Create instance of Sold in soldfile.js

const Sold = require("sold");

Sold({
  root: __dirname, // root folder (default is current working directory)
  template: "template", // template folder relative to root (default is "template")
  source: "src", // source folder relative to root (default is "src"),
  destination: "build", // destination folder relative to root (default is "build")
  engine: "handlebars", // template engine (default is "handlebars")
  engineOptions: {} // template engine options (default is {})
});

2. Create or download a template and put it in the template directory.

3. Create a folder called src (or whatever you named the source).

4. Inside, create another folder called posts, this is the directory your posts will be in.

5. To make a new post, make a markdown file, for example post.md. Put some metadata at the top to let Sold know of the title and description of the post, then put your content. For example:

---
title: First Post
description: My very first post
---

Hey! This blog post was made with [Sold](https://github.com/kbrsh/sold).

6. Run

$ sold

7. Check out the generated files in the build/ directory.

A template should be in the file declared in the template option of an instance. Sold will, by default, search in the template directory.

This file should contain the home page. It will be provided all section names as values holding arrays of the posts in that section.

This file should contain the template used for each post. All contents of the metadata provided at the top of each post's markdown content is provided in a template here, and the HTML for the post is provided in content. The HTML code should be unescaped.

The subdirectory it was in will be provided in section, the file name will be provided in file, and a map of sections to post arrays will be provided in posts. If an order option is defined in the metadata, then the posts will be given in ascending order using the value.

<h1>{{title}}</h1>

<p>{{section}}</p>
<p>{{file}}</p>

{{#posts.posts}}
	{{title}}
{{/posts.posts}}

{{{content}}}

Setting up a template engine can be done with the engine option, to setup an engine. Currently the supported engines are:

• Handlebars (default)
• EJS
• Pug

The engine option can also be a function that calls a callback with a result when given a template, data, and options.

function engine(template, data, options, done) {
  configure(options);
  done(compile(template, data));
}

Licensed under the MIT License