This is a very very very minimal and simple python script to create a static website.
If you want a serious and good static site generator use Hugo.
This tool just replicates the file structure in a folder to another folder but replaces shortcodes with blocks.
Better said (and considering it to be used in websites) it's meant to take html files in a certain folder, recreate the structure in another folder but replacing shortcodes in the format {{ block block_name }} with blocks (header, footer, sidebar, ...) found located in another folder.
It also support variables to be declared in the page and used in the blocks.
Example:
pages/page-1.html
{{ var page_title = About }}
{{ var body_class = page-about }}
{{ block header }}
<div class="main-block">
<h1>Hello there!</h1>
</div>
{{ block footer }}
blocks/header.html
<html>
<head>
<title>
{{ page_title }} - mugnozzo.xyz
</title>
</head>
<body class="{{ body_class }}">
<header>
<p>This is my header</p>
<header>
blocks/footer.html
<footer>
<p>This is my footer</p>
</footer>
</body>
</html>
This will render a single page, starting from pages/page-1.html replacing:
- the shortcode
{{ block header }}with the content of the fileblocks/header.html -
- the shortcode
{{ block footer }}with the content of the fileblocks/footer.html
- the shortcode
The variables declared in the first rows of page-1.html are substituted in the blocks with their values.
The result:
<html>
<head>
<title>
About - mugnozzo.xyz
</title>
</head>
<body class="page-about">
<header>
<p>This is my header</p>
<header>
<div class="main-block">
<h1>Hello there!</h1>
</div>
<footer>
<p>This is my footer</p>
</footer>
</body>
</html>