mangony

Yet another static site generator - fast, simple and powerful.

Mangony fulfills just one task: It takes handlebars templates and compiles them to an output directory.

Features

Think of Assemble (grunt-assemble) with a smooth mango juice - yummy.

1. Mangony can be used in Grunt, Gulp or standalone as npm module.
2. By using the provided development server (express) every change is completed in no time, no matter how many pages you have in your project.
3. Only changed pages get compiled.
4. Creation of deep ids is possible for all types.
5. For every type (data, partials, layouts, pages) Mangony adds a watcher (chokidar).
6. HJSON is available.
7. Handlebars version 4.x is integrated.
8. Markdown pages with handlebars are supported.
9. Markdown-it, markdown-it-attrs and markdown-it-named-headers are available.

Installation

Install Mangony with

npm install mangony --save-dev

For the installation of the Grunt plugin, see grunt-mangony.

Usage

Just create a new instance of Mangony:

const app = new Mangony();

Then render your files or start your development server:

app.render();

When using the default options your files get compiled.

Examples

dev.js

Let`s say we want to develop a new app.

const Mangony = require(`mangony`);
const app = new Mangony({
    compileStaticFiles: false
    cwd: `src`,
    dest: `dist/`,
    devServer: {
        start: true
    },
    watch: true,
    types: {
        data: {
            dir: 'data',
            files: [
                '**/*.json',
                '**/*.hjson'
            ]
        },
        partials: {
            dir: 'partials',
            files: [
                '**/*.hbs'
            ]
        },
        pages: {
            dir: 'pages',
            files: [
                '**/*.hbs',
                '**/*.md'
            ]
        },
        layouts: {
            dir: 'layouts',
            files: [
                '**/*.hbs'
            ]
        }
    },
    helpers: [
        'helpers/*.js'
    ]
});

app.render();

When using the devServer options all routes get registered.

Now you can open your browser at localhost:3000 and navigate to the page you want to change. The url is the path to your page without a file extension (i.e. /index).

prod.js

Let`s say we want to build our app.

const Mangony = require(`mangony`);
const app = new Mangony({
    cwd: `src`,
    dest: `dist/`
    types: {
        data: {
            dir: 'data',
            files: [
                '**/*.json',
                '**/*.hjson'
            ]
        },
        partials: {
            dir: 'partials',
            files: [
                '**/*.hbs'
            ]
        },
        pages: {
            dir: 'pages',
            files: [
                '**/*.hbs',
                '**/*.md'
            ]
        },
        layouts: {
            dir: 'layouts',
            files: [
                '**/*.hbs'
            ]
        }
    },
    helpers: [
        'helpers/*.js'
    ]
});

app.render();

Now you can find the complete rendered output in the destination folder.

Options

assets

• default: "./"

Path to your assets in your destination directory.

collections

• default: []

Add your own collections which can be used in YAML front matter.

compileStaticFiles

• default: true

Enable/disable the compiling of your files.

cwd

• default: "src"

The current working directory.

dest

• default: "app"

Output directory.

devServer.start

• default: false

Set to true if you want to use the provided development server.

devServer.express

• default: null

You can pass your own express instance.

devServer.port

• default: 3000

Change the port of the development server.

exportData

• default : false

Export the complete data stack as JSON file.

ext

• default: ".html"

Define the extension of your output files.

flatten

• default: false

Flatten your output directory.

helpers

• default: ["helpers/*.js"]
• relative to cwd

Register custom handlebars helpers by providing the path. Globbing is possible.

types (object)

There are 4 necessary types which needs to be defined:

• layouts
• pages
• partials
• data

Each type has the following options:

types[type].createDeepIds

For every type you can create deep ids. The whole path to the file will be used. That makes it possible to have multiple identical named data, partial, layout and page files in different folders.

types[type].dir

• default: "[type]"
• relative to cwd

You can change the type directory to any folder you like.

Important: for every type directory Mangony creates a watcher if options.watch is true.

types[type].files

• default: ["**/*.[typeExtension]"]

Pass an array of files to the files property. Globbing is possible.

types[type].pathDelimiter

• default: "/"

By using deep ids the id is the path to your file. But using such ids in handlebars is not possible for your data files. That`s why you can define a path delimiter.

watch

• default: false

Just enable the internal watching of file changes.

Why Mangony?

Static site generator and server?

In general I love static site generators. Simply deploy the output and you`re done - great.

But there is one major problem. When developing every change leads to the compiling of all pages. In large projects this is very time consuming.

So why not just combine a server for development purpose with a static site generator?

Special thanks goes to Henri Podolski for the idea and discussion.

Assemble?

For 2 1/2 years I am working with Assemble. It is a great tool and I like it a lot.

The new Assemble (a full stack site generator) seems to be pretty nice, but it doesn`t fit so well in my current stack. Grunt-assemble however has a major bug, so it is not usable in the latest release.

Last but not least

I just wanted to develop a static site generator.

Test

Just checkout the repository, install all dependencies with npm install and execute npm test.

Roadmap

<2.0.0

In the current release (<2.0.0) the following things are missing and will be integrated in the near future:

• YAML as data files

>=2.0.0

When necessary an eco system for plugins will be integrated.

License

see LICENSE.md.