Update requirements
Only remove the build dir if it exists
Put blog posts in their own directories
A static website generator for my own site, otherwise known as the Infernal Digital Static Publishing Instrument Simply Producing Orderly Printed Documents.
There are three different groups of files which make up the website.
The following is the structure of my website and the builder code has constant variables indicating where each group lives on the filesystem.
.
├── content
│ ├── blog
│ │ └── 20200701_my_first_post.md
│ └── projects
│ └── walking_through_walls.md
├── static
│ ├── css
│ │ └── style.css
│ ├── images
│ │ └── logo.svg
│ └── index.html
└── templates
├── about.html
├── base.html
├── blog.html
├── post.html
└── projects.html
First ensure the requirements are installed. Use a Python 'virtual environment'
if desired - the example below uses the venv module of Python 3.
$ python3 -m venv env
$ . env/bin/activate
(env) $ pip install -r requirements.txt
Then, with the static files, content, and templates in place, building the website is as simple as running:
(env) $ python3 build.py
A build directory will be created with the following structure.
build
├── about.html
├── blog
│ ├── tag
│ │ └── python.html
│ └── my-first-post.html
├── blog.html
├── css
│ └── style.css
├── images
│ └── logo.svg
├── index.html
└── projects.html
The content of the build directory can then be copied to a web server.
My website is pretty simple so at this stage there's no plans for anything else. A couple of things that crossed my mind while building this were: