complexity 0.9.0

A refreshingly simple static site generator, for those who like to work in HTML.

A refreshingly simple static site generator, for those who like to work in HTML.

Documentation

The full documentation is at http://complexity.rtfd.org.

Quickstart

Try it out:

$ pip install complexity
$ git clone [e-mail]:audreyr/complexity-example.git my_proj
$ cd my_proj
$ complexity project/ www/

Once you’ve done that, open a web browser to http://127.0.0.1:9090 to see the newly generated Complexity static site.

Features

• Works on Python 2.6, 2.7, and 3.3, and on PyPy.

• Takes simple HTML templates as input.

• Data from .json files turns into template context data.

• Template inheritance, filters, etc. (Brought to you by Jinja2.)

• Auto-expands .html file URLs into cleaner URLs (e.g. about.html gets expanded to /about/)

• Can optionally be used as a library instead of from the command line. See Using Complexity as a Library for details.

Best Used With

Complexity is designed to be used with these packages:

• Simplicity: Converts ReStructuredText into JSON, which Complexity can use as input.

• A Lot of Effort: Deploys a static website (e.g. the output of Complexity) to Amazon S3.

• Cookiecutter: Creates projects from project templates.

Sure, they could have all been built into Complexity, but decoupling them seemed like a nice thing to do.

Community

• Stuck? Don’t know where to begin? File an issue and we’ll help you.

• We love contributions. Read about how to contribute.

History

0.9.0 (2013-08-28)

• CONFIG CHANGE: Configuration is now via a complexity.yml file inside the project, instead of a complexity.json file.

• Support for an unexpanded_templates config option (#23).

See http://complexity.readthedocs.org/en/latest/advanced_usage.html#config-using-complexity-yml for more info.

0.8.0 (2013-08-10)

• USAGE CHANGE: At the command line, Complexity no longer takes an output_dir argument. It now assumes that your output_dir is www/ by default, but you can customize it in complexity.json.

• Support for configuration via complexity.json: you can specify any or all of the following key/value pairs:

  • output_dir

  • templates_dir

  • assets_dir

  • context_dir

See http://complexity.readthedocs.org/en/latest/advanced_usage.html#config-using-complexity-json for more info.

0.7 (2013-08-05)

A couple of small but important renames. If you rely on either of the following defaults, you will need to rename them in your Complexity project.

• Directory parameter for .json files to be turned into context data has been renamed from json_dir to context_dir.

• Default context directory value json/ has been changed to context/.

Sometimes you want your .json files to be turned into context variables, and sometimes you don’t. This rename alleviates confusion when working with non-context .json files.

0.6 (2013-07-26)

• Support for multi-level template directories. (Upgrade to at least 0.6 if you want to have folders within folders and beyond in templates/.)

• Skip non-HTML files in templates/ rather than raising NonHTMLFileException.

0.5 (2013-07-25)

• Improved static site generation API - better parameters are used.

• Files in the root of assets/ (or the asset directory) now get copied over to the output.

• Much more documentation.

0.4.2 (2013-07-21)

• Make reading of JSON files from json/ optional.

0.4.1 (2013-07-19)

• Fix reading of JSON files from json/.

0.4 (2013-07-19)

• Project layout is now:

  my_repo/
  ├── project/       <--------- input
  │   ├── assets/
  │   │   ├── css/
  │   │   ├── js/
  │   │   └── img/
  │   ├── json/
  │   │   └── stuff.json
  │   └── templates/
  │       ├── base.html
  │       ├── index.html
  │       └── about.html
  └── www/          <---------- output (generated)
      ├── index.html
      ├── about/
      │   └── index.html
      ├── css/
      ├── js/
      └── img/

• Assets are copied over to www/ during site generation.

• If the www/ directory was previously created, it prompts the user and then deletes it before site regeneration.

• Templates starting with base are not generated as individual pages. They are meant to be extended in other templates.

0.3 (2013-07-18)

• Graceful shutdown/restart of dev server.

• Required input and output dir arguments.

• Optional port argument.

• Improved server start/stop messages.

• Major internal refactor.

0.2.1 (2013-07-15)

• Fixes to setup.py.

0.2.0 (2013-07-15)

• Data from .json files now gets read as template context data.

• Tested (and passing!) on Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, PyPy.

0.1.1 (2013-07-10)

• First release on PyPI.