Making my own static site generator
Why?
Honestly I just wanted to create my own blog site, with as few dependencies as possible, and especially without npm
I’ve been a web developer for 10 ish years now, mostly working in .NET and React. I’ve been through the JS new framework every month era and honestly, I’m just wanting a simple developer experience to write this without depending on someone else’s tools (as much as I can).
Tech?
- Pandoc = For converting .md to .html
- Python = For programmatically creating my index.html file with blogs
- Bash = To run all the above and outputting to a directory
Sound to simple to be true? Nope, it really is that easy if your just wanting small scale. I would imagine (as I have so few blogs) that if you write blogs all the time, then you would likely want a more robust static site generator. Equally if you love your time not configuring and writing code for everything, then also using a more robust static site generator would be preferable!