JSekyll - minimalistic Static Site Generator in JavaScript

Contact: Robert Nowotniak <rnowotniak@gmail.com>

I have abandoned this project, and I've decided to move to a different SSG

This tool is a minimalistic Static Site Generator inspired by Jekyll. Thanks to its simplicity it allows to keep all processing under your control. However, only a subset of Jekyll features is supported. Neither it is 100% compatible with original Jekyll.

Implemented features

• Two run modes: build / serve
• Serving site locally in dev mode (Express JavaScript lib)
• MarkDown support with (Marked JS lib)
• Liquid templates support (LiquidJS)
• Live Reload (browser-sync)
• Load data from _data/*.yml
• Process files selectively
• Multi-language support
• Page variables: {{ page.var }}
• _layouts/ directory
• _includes/ directory
• _config.yml configuration file (to liquid vars site.var)
• Multi-files support
• Frontmatter support

Example site

Build

$ ./jsekyll.js -s tests/testpage1/ build 

building site tests/testpage1/ -> ./_site
Loading _config.yml and _data/*.yml
{
  permalink: '/:categories/:year/:title/',
  title: 'My test website',
  email: '[email protected]',
  layout: 'layout1',
  defaults: [
    { scope: [Object], values: [Object] },
    { scope: [Object], values: [Object] }
  ],
  highlighter: 'none',
  kramdown: {
    input: 'GFM',
    highlighter: false,
    syntax_highlighter: false,
    syntax_highlighter_opts: { disable: true }
  }
}
---
-> Processing page2.md
Yaml: { title: 'Page 2', permalink: '/page2/' }
Writing ./_site//page2//index.html
-> Processing debug.md
Yaml: { title: 'debug' }
Writing ./_site/debug/index.html
-> Processing index.html
Yaml: { myval: 5, title: 'My test page' }
html file
Writing ./_site/index.html
-> Processing page1.md
Yaml: { title: 'Page 1', permalink: '/page1/' }
Writing ./_site//page1//index.html
-> Processing index-pl.html
Yaml: { title: 'My website - Polish version', permalink: '/pl/' }
Writing ./_site//pl//index.html

Serve and test

$ ./jsekyll.js s -P 5000
serving site

TODO perhaps some day in the future

• themes
• plugins

Not supported and not planned

Simply because I was never using these in Jekyll:

• SCSS

References

• https://jekyllrb.com/ - Jekyll SSG, which inspired this work
• https://nextjs.org/ - another SSG in JavaScript (React SSG)
• https://css-tricks.com/building-a-blog-with-next-js/ (Next.js tutorial)