legoman 3.0.0

a tiny static website generator

legoman

Simple static website generator.

Supports TOC, image captions, LaTeX, code highlighting and tables.

Demo

Usage

pip install legoman

# in an empty directory
legoman init
make html

# run devserver (requires inotify-tools)
make devserver

How it works

Files in content/ are rendered and copied to output/, so the directory structure of your rendered website matches the structure of your source files.

For example, the demo content/:

content
├── codehilite.css
├── index.j2
├── projects
│   ├── bar_proj
│   │   └── index.md
│   └── foo_proj
│       ├── cheetos_small.png
│       └── index.md
└── styles.css

yields this output/

output
├── codehilite.css
├── index.html
├── projects
│   ├── bar_proj
│   │   └── index.html
│   └── foo_proj
│       ├── cheetos_small.png
│       └── index.html
└── styles.css

CGI

Legoman can also render files on the fly, which is useful for dynamically rendering files on a webserver.

echo '# hello world' | legoman cgi md

Or for serving markdown with lighttpd:

$HTTP["url"] =~ "\.md$" {
    cgi.assign = ( ".md"  => "/path/to/legoman cgi md")
}

Usage

Usage: legoman [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

Options:
  --debug
  --content_dir PATH
  --output_dir PATH
  --template_dir PATH
  --help               Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  build  generate content
  cgi    run as CGI
  init   initialize project

See also

• Hugo - similar idea, but written in Go and uses Go's templating engine
• Dozens of other static website generators