Stuff made by me

I'm trying to learn Rust so I've had a go at making my own (sort of) static site generator! In the spirit of the IndieWeb, I'd like to be able to keep a copy of things I'me made in Codepen locally and publish there when I'm ready.

This is also going to act as a bit of a dumping ground experimentation area that can live outside of my personal website.

Requirements

Needs Rust to run the build process. The easiest way to get everything needed is to install rustup. After cloning the repository, make sure to build the program that will build the site.

cargo build --release

Also make sure to run npm install (or Yarn; or pnpm, which I use).

Building the site

To run locally, run

npm run serve

which will build all the html files and start a local web server.

Creating new pages

There is a config.json file that stores all the information for building the site. If a new section is needed, make sure to create it first as this is needed (for now) before any scaffolding takes place. e.g.

[
  {
    "name": "daily-ui",
    "text": "Daily UI",
    "pens": []
  }
]

Now to scaffold a new project into here, run

npm run go -- js daily-ui/login-page "A login page"

This will create a basic javascript-powered directory under /pens/daily-ui/login-page. To create a rust powered hybrid app, change the js argument to rust. Both of these commands update the config.json file automatically.

Make sure to run npm run build before commiting.