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Code over configuration static site generator.

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lightweight: a static site generator

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Code over configuration.

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Examples

Features

  • Jinja2 templates
  • Markdown rendering with YAML frontmatter
  • Sass/SCSS rendering
  • Dev server
  • Template project
  • Clean extensible API
  • Fast Enough
  • Fails Fast

Installation

Available from PyPI:

pip install lightweight

Quick Example

from lightweight import Site, SiteCli, markdown, paths, jinja, template, sass


def blog_posts(source):
    post_template = template('_templates_/blog/post.html')
    # Use globs to select files. # source = 'posts/**.md'
    return (markdown(path, post_template) for path in paths(source))

def example(url):
    site = Site(url)

    # Render an index page from Jinja2 template.
    site.add('index.html', jinja('index.html'))

    # Render markdown blog posts.
    [site.add(f'blog/{post.source_path.stem}.html', post) for post in blog_posts('posts/**.md')]
    site.add('blog.html', jinja('posts.html'))

    # Render SASS to CSS.
    site.add('css/global.css', sass('styles/main.scss'))

    # Include a copy of a directory.
    site.add('img')
    site.add('fonts')
    site.add('js')

    return site   

def generate_prod():
    example(url='https://example.org/').generate(out='out')


if __name__ == '__main__':
    # Run CLI with `build` and `serve` commands. 
    SiteCli(build=example).run()

Create a new project

Initialize a new project using init command:

lw init --url https://example.org example

It accepts multiple optional arguments:

lw init -h
usage: lw init [-h] [--title TITLE] location

Generate Lightweight skeleton application

positional arguments:
  location       the directory to initialize site generator in

optional arguments:
  -h, --help     show this help message and exit
  --title TITLE  the title of of the generated site

Dev Server

Lightweight includes a simple static web server with live reload serving at localhost:8080:

python -m website serve

Here website is a Python module

Host and port can be changed via:

python -m website serve --host 0.0.0.0 --port 80

The live reload can be disabled with --no-live-reload flag:

python -m website serve --no-live-reload

Otherwise every served HTML file will be injected with a javascript that polls /__live_reload_id__. The script triggers page reload when the value at that location changes. The /__live_reload_id__ is changed after regenerating the site upon change in --source directory.

To stop the server press Ctrl+C in terminal.

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