lightweight 1.0.0.dev42

Code over configuration static site generator.

lightweight: a static site generator

Code over configuration.

Documentation

Examples

Features

• Jinja2 templates
• Markdown rendering with YAML frontmatter
• Sass/SCSS rendering
• RSS/Atom feeds (basic implementation with ability to pass only plaintext to feeds)
• Site nesting
• Dev server
• Template project
• Clean extensible API
• Fast Enough
• Fails Fast

Installation

Available from PyPI:

pip install lightweight

Quick Example

from lightweight import Site, markdown, paths, jinja, template, rss, atom, sass


def blog_posts(source):
    post_template = template('posts/_template.html')
    # Use globs to select files. # source = 'posts/**.md'
    return (markdown(path, post_template) for path in paths(source))

def example(url):
    site = Site(url)

    # Render an index page from Jinja2 template.
    site.include('index.html', jinja('pages/index.html'))

    # Render markdown blog posts.
    [site.include(f'posts/{post.source_path.stem}.html', post) for post in blog_posts('posts/**.md')]
    site.include('posts.html', jinja('pages/posts.html'))

    # Syndicate RSS and Atom feeds.
    site.include('posts.atom.xml', atom(site['posts']))
    site.include('posts.rss.xml', rss(site['posts']))

    # Render SASS to CSS.
    site.include('css/style.css', sass('styles/style.scss'))

    # Include a copy of a directory.
    site.include('img')
    site.include('js')

    return site   

if __name__ == '__main__':
    # Create a site and generate by writing all of it’s content. 
    example(url='https://example.org/').generate()

Create a new project

Initialize a new project using init command:

lw init <location>

It accepts multiple optional arguments:

lw init -h
usage: lw.py init [-h] [--url URL] [--title TITLE] [--authors AUTHORS]
                  location

Generate Lightweight skeleton application

positional arguments:
  location           the directory to initialize site generator in

optional arguments:
  -h, --help         show this help message and exit
  --url URL          the url of the generated site
  --title TITLE      the title of of the generated site
  --authors AUTHORS  comma-separated list of names

Dev Server

Lightweight includes a simple static web server with live reload serving at localhost:8080:

lw serve site:dev

Here site is a Python module

Host and port can be set via:

lw serve site:dev --host 0.0.0.0 --port 80

The directory to resolve the module is provided as --source. It defaults to cwd. The source directory is watched for live reload.

lw serve site:dev --source ~/Projects/example

The live reload can be disabled with --no-live-reload flag:

lw serve site:dev --no-live-reload

Otherwise every served HTML file will be injected with a javascript that polls /__live_reload_id__. The script reloads the page when value at that location changes. That happens after regenerating the site upon change in --source directory.

To stop the server press Ctrl+C in terminal.