The best static site generator is actually just one line of shell and available on any GNU system.
for filename in src/**/*.html; do; cpp -EwP "$filename" > "out/$filename"; done
This works with:
- snippets/shortcodes (e.g. #include "_header.html")
- file metadata (e.g. #define TITLE My Awesome Post)
- conditional inclusion (with #ifdef)
add -finput-charset=utf-8 and -fexec-charset=utf-8 if you'd like to use non-ASCII text.
Enjoy :P
@noracodes
A-yep! Haven't done a full site, but have had great luck with markdown or straight html piped through cpp and/or m4. (Also for markdown -> PDF via Pandoc.)
@rowens @noracodes Oh good, I'm glad to see somebody else already suggested m4. I think it's a much better macro language than cpp, just unfairly maligned for having been used to paper over deficiencies in shell scripting for autoconf and in sendmail's configuration language
