ANannowiki·Aug 29, 2022
This is mindblowing synchronicity. I thought this article was one I had read this weekend for a second but checked the post date and saw it wasn't available yesterday.
I'm working on trying to write a static site generator for my own personal site/blog in C++, been tinkering for a couple months. It started as a passion project in tribute to my dog that passed. GatsbyJS wasn't working (again) which is what my current site is built with, so I just said screw it, I'll write my own. Chose C to begin with and quickly gave up. Decided to switch to C++ because its what I'm supposed to be learning for work.
I named it bluesky, after my dog that passed, Sky Blue. https://github.com/mas-4/bluesky
Templating is a lot harder than I had initially thought. I wanted the templating system to be as bare bones as possible, similar to another static site ge
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nerator I rather like, sergey[0]. Most of these articles I found ([1], [2]) about writing your own SSG don't go into templating much, they just use an off the shelf library. Inja[3] is available for C++ but, like I said, I want something really bare bones, like if you were designing html now, you'd obviously include html-includes and html-templates. I finally got it working for includes and templates, now I have to add the markdown support, and then I plan on migrating my personal site to using it.
[0]: https://sergey.cool/
[1]: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2020/09/stack-custom-made-s...
[2]: https://blog.hamaluik.ca/posts/build-your-own-static-site-ge...
[3]: https://github.com/pantor/inja
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