Minimal static site generator

I have tried to build a static site generator before, but it became too complex too fast. So if you bump your head, try again, bump harder.

I ran into blot by David Merfield. Love it! So this is my version of that but with Haxe (Blot is written in node.js and javascript).

This project started as an example in the documentation of Haxe and the system targets. It explains that you can have one codebase but multiple targets:

• cpp (C++)
• cs (C#)
• node.js
• python
• java
• neko
• lua

Remember it's WIP and probably will never finish

Static site generators focus on one main task: generate a complete static HTML-based site. This result does not rely on databases or other external data sources and therewith avoid any server-side processing when accessing the website.

source

• Default Haxe templates
• Haxelib markdown (a haxe markdown converter to html)
• Reading and writing
• Different System targets (Python, Java, etc)
• Bootstrap for styling
• Drop-In Alternative for Font Awesome Icons: ficons

Building speed... I have no idea if this is really the time (in milliseconds) is takes. Still figuring out what the fasters building system is...

Don't know which one: seems cpp is the fastest and node.js is second fastest.

[node] start: 65ms, current: 128ms, past:63ms
[python] start: 73ms, current: 287ms, past:214ms
[lua] start: 10ms, current: 259ms, past:249ms
[neko] start: 10ms, current: 430ms, past:420ms
[cpp] start: 0ms, current: 50ms, past:50ms
[cs] start: 49738705ms, current: 49738904ms, past:199ms
[java] start: 49742687ms, current: 49742917ms, past:230ms

Because I primarily use the Haxe Python target, the docs folder uses the files generated by this target.

build_move.html uses the export of python

So export to docs would be;

haxe build_python.hxml
haxe build_move.html

And you have an updated docs.

(probably need to automate this better, but this works as well)