Granita

A super-simple static site generator, with sensible opinionated defaults.

Installation

pip install granita

Quickstart

Run the following commands in your terminal, then open the file my_app/public/index.html in your browser.

granita init my_app
cd my_app
granita build

What this is

At a basic level, you write Markdown in the pages directory, and Granita combines them with HTML templates from the templates directory.

For example, take the following Markdown:

# Hello world!

> *I'm learning how to use [Granita](https://github.com/apple-phi/granita)*

This would be translated into HTML before being inserted inside the <Content/> element in the template. By default, if a template is not specified, Granita will try to find and use file called default.html in your templates directory.

Files listed in the static directory will be copied as-is to the output public directory.

Frontmatter

To specify your own parameters, you can use a format called frontmatter. It looks like this:

---
title: "My app"
template: my_template.html
---
# Hello world!

> *I'm learning how to use [Granita](https://github.com/apple-phi/granita)*

title and template are treated specially by Granita. Here's what they do:

• title specifies the title of the webpage, by creating a <title> element if it doesn't already exist in the template.
• template specifies the HTML template to embed the Markdown in, with the path relative to the templates directory.

Additionally, the frontmatter keys are treated as CSS selectors for prepending content to the template. So if you had the following frontmatter:

---
"#my_element": "some text"
---

Then the element with the id my_element will have the text some text prepended inside it. And this will happen for all elements matched by the CSS selector. For example, if you duplicate the <Content/> tag in the default template generated by granita init and rebuild, then you will see two copies of the page content.

Further configuration

If you are unsatisfied with the default paths and settings, you can create a granita.config.json file to override them. Here's what the default configuration looks like:

{
 "pages": "pages", // path to pages dir
 "static": "static", // path to static dir
 "public": "public", // path to output dir
 "templates": "templates", // path to template dir
 "default-template": "default.html", // fallback template path
 "content-selector": "Content", // CSS selector to insert Markdown into
 "global-stylesheet": null, // a stylesheet to be applied to all templates
 "extra-data": {} // key : value pairs of CSS selector : HTML data
}

You don't have to provide customisation for all settings; the defaults will be used if left unspecified.

License

MIT License, which can be found here

© Copyright 2021, apple-phi.