zvc 0.1.8

static blog generator

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install

pip3 install zvc

help

> zvc --help 

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

╭─ Options ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ --install-completion          Install completion for the current shell.      │
│ --show-completion             Show completion for the current shell, to copy │
│                               it or customize the installation.              │
│ --help                        Show this message and exit.                    │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
╭─ Commands ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ init    Initialize the blog structure with required directories and config   │
│         file.                                                                │
│ clean   Clean the generated files                                            │
│ build   Build the static site.                                               │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

init

> mkdir blog 
> cd blog 
> zvc init 
Initializing blog structure...
Created directory: contents
Created directory: themes
Created directory: themes/default
Created directory: themes/default/assets
Created file: config.yaml
Created file: themes/default/index.html
Created file: themes/default/post.html
Created file: themes/default/assets/style.css
Created directory: docs
Initialization complete!

build

> zvc build 
Building static site...
Cleared directory: docs
Copying theme assets from: themes/default/assets
Theme assets copied to: ./docs/assets
  Converting markdown files... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%
Created index.html: docs/index.html
Build complete!

run

> python -m http.server 8000  --directory ./docs 

Markdown Frontmatter

zvc supports frontmatter in markdown files. You can add metadata at the top of your markdown files using YAML format.

Supported Fields

• title: Post title
• author: Post author (optional)
• status: Post status - draft or published (default: published). Draft posts are excluded from build output.
• pub_date: Publication date (YYYY-MM-DD format)
• description: Post description
• featured_image: URL to featured image
• tags: List of tags

Example

---
title: 'My First Post'
author: 'John Doe'
status: 'published'
pub_date: '2024-07-13'
description: 'This is my first blog post'
featured_image: ''
tags: ['blog', 'tutorial']
---

# Your Content Here

Write your blog post content below the frontmatter.

The author field will be displayed in both the post page and the index page alongside the publication date.

Setting status: 'draft' will exclude the post from the build output. If not specified, the default is published.