#Super Simple Static Site Generator (ssssg)

I took heavy inspiration for this script from ssg, written by Roman Zolotarev and an updated version of this, ssg5 by u/fmash16.

#Features:

• 150 lines of fabulous shell script!
• Home page with a description of all posts
• Post feed, archived by date
• RSS Feed
• A comprehensive tagging system (tags page, pages per tag, tag links)
• Pandoc

#How to:

#Dependencies

ssssg uses pandoc to generate html from markdown.

#Some stuff that I could probably improve upon

• It's not very SEO-friendly. No sitemap. No opengraph tags.
• It's kind of slow. We delete and regenerate all pages and tags each time.

#File structure

This script assumes a file structure as follows:

├── src
│   ├── _bottom.html
│   ├── _top.html
│   ├── config.yaml
│   ├── css
│   │   └── style.css
│   └── posts
│       ├── 2021-01-01--an-example-post.md
│       └── 2022-01-01--a-cloned-post-to-show-tags.md

• This structure isn't 100% necessary, but recommended.
• You can put any files in any directory (including the top-level)
• Posts should go in the src/posts directory. Special logic happens to posts (tags and a list of posts by date).
• You can chuck whatever CSS you want into the src/css directory.
• the src/_{header,top,bottom}.html files are optional but useful for making sites look half-decent.

#Post structure

You should write your posts in markdown. Frontmatter is a vital part of how this script works. Each post should have these frontmatter fields:

date title description tags

An example

---
date: 2022-01-01
title: An example post title
description: This is a super cool way to generate static stites
tags: ssssg simple web
---

.. the rest of the md document..

The rest of the post should be in markdown.

#Config structure

The src/config.yaml file contains extra variables that you may want built into the site. For example, take a look at mine:

base_url: https://wclarke.net
index_md: Hello!👋😃\n\nI'm a software engineer based in the UK.
title: 🚀 Will Clarke
rss_title: Will Clarke's Blog
rss_description: Some random ramblings of a sleep-deprived software engineer

#Example

Here's an example script to get you up and running. Alternatively you can look at https://git.sr.ht/~will-clarke/blog for inspiration.

mkdir -p src/posts src/css

echo "---
date: 2022-01-01
title: An example post title
description: This is a super cool way to generate static stites
tags: ssssg simple web
---

Here's the actual Markdown content
- nice
" | tee \
    src/posts/2021-01-01--an-example-post.md \
    src/posts/2022-01-01--a-cloned-post-to-show-tags.md

echo "
---
title: All about me
---

Some self-centered ramblings
" > src/about.md

echo "<h1>Hey everyone</h1>
<nav>
<a href=\"/about.html\">about</a>
<a href=\"/tags.html\">tags</a>
<a href=\"/posts.html\">posts</a>
</nav>" > src/_top.html
echo "<footer>That's all Folks!</footer>" > src/_bottom.html
echo "h1 {color: red;}" > src/css/style.css

./ssssg