bake is a template engine for static text files. It is something like Tom Preston-Werner's jekyll, but it is independent of file types and markup languages.
It allows you to apply JavaScript templates to any type of text file. These templates are written in embedded JavaScript.
npm install bake
A template (default.tpl) may look like this:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="<%= lang %>">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title><%- title %> | <%= siteTitle %></title>
</head>
<body>
<h1><%- title %></h1>
<%- __content %>
<% if (locals.foo) { %>
<p>Foo is defined.</p>
<% } %>
</body>
</html>
And a corresponding content file (post.txt) could look like this:
title: A sample file
lang: en
<p>Sample text.</p>
With a minimal configuration object
{
"fileExtensions": {
"txt": "html" // look for html files and save as html file
},
"properties": {
"siteTitle": "My Site" // Global website title
}
}
the output (post.html) would be:
<!DOCTYPE>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>A sample file | My Site</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>A sample file</h1>
<p>Sample text.</p>
</body>
</html>
bake not only enables building websites (although that’s its main purpose) but lets you choose. You can write hooks for each property to control the output.
Visit the Wiki for more information or look at the example.
bake is not a webserver nor comes with one. It doesn't replace your
Apache/Nginx etc. So if you want to write a website that is accessible by the
public, you have to change the settings of your webserver to use bakeDir as
the root directory.
bake is no blogging engine (although it's possible to create one with the help of bake). It doesn't provide generating an index or a feed. It doesn't have any commenting functionality either. If you are looking for a system with these features, try bread which is based on bake.
If you encounter any bugs or issues, feel free to open an issue at github.
This work was inspired by heimweh by Benjamin Birkenhake and txtracer by Konstantin Weiss, but also by wheat by Tim Caswell and jekyll by Tom Preston-Werner.
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