staticdev

Static Development Server

Deprecated, moving to staticbuild.

A basic front-end development server built with Express, less and nunjucks.

Getting Started

Install

npm install -g staticdev

Run

staticdev path/to/project

or

staticdev path/to/project/staticbuild.json

Project Directory

See test/default-config-site for an example.

The project directory should contain a staticbuild.json configuration file or be organized according to the default configuration. A project directory organized according to the default-staticbuild.json configuration looks like this:

  /path/to/project
    - src/...
	- staticbuild.data.json
	- staticbuild.htm.js
	- [staticbuild.json]

The src/ sub-directory is the root of the site which can contain static .html, .js and .css files as well as .less and .htm (nunjucks) files.

Default Configuration

The default configured template engine and css preprocessor are the only supported options right now.

Here is a look at the default configuration (at the time of this writing):

{
  "verbose": false,
  "data": "staticbuild.data.json",
  "host": null,
  "port": 8080,
  "source": "src",
  "dest": "dist",
  "favicon": "favicon.ico",
  "template": {
    "index": "index",
    "engine": "nunjucks",
    "extension": "htm",
    "globals": "staticbuild.htm.js",
    "locals": false,
    "options": {
      "autoescape": true
    }
  },
  "css": {
    "preprocessor": "less",
    "map": {
      "enabled": true,
      "inline": false
    }
  },
  "ignore": [
    ".gitignore",
    "*.layout.htm",
    "*.part.htm",
    "*.map"
  ]
}

Configuration Values

This section is incomplete.

• source (default: "src") String. Root source folder containing templates and static files.
• data (default: {}) Ojbect. Global data merged into the Nunjucks render context.

Template Configuration

• extension (default: ".html") String. File extension to output.
• extensions (default: {}) Object. Global extensions added to the Nunjucks environment. See Custom Tags.
• filters (default: {}) Object. Global filter functions added to the Nunjucks environment. See Custom Filters.
• functions (default: {}) Object. Global functions merged into the Nunjucks render context.
• globals (default: undefined) Object. A single object which provides data, extensions, filters and functions objects instead of setting each of these options separately. The separate global options are merged into this base object.
• locals (default: undefined) Boolean or String. When true, enables loading of local template context data and functions from files that match the following default pattern: "<filename>.+(js|json)". When a glob pattern string is given, the directory containing a given template will be searched using the pattern. Data and functions from all matched files are merged into the render context. Note that the token <filename> will be replaced with a given template's file name including extension. Use the <filename_noext> token instead in a custom pattern to target the file name without extension.

Command Line Interface

staticdev: A static website development server.

Syntax:

    staticdev [options | path]

Options:

    --help      -h    Prints this help message.
    --init-default    Writes the default config file to the given path
    --no-restart      Disables the built-in nodemon server restart.
    --restart-delay   Number of seconds to delay nodemon restart when global 
                      script and data files change.
    --verbose   -V    Prints verbose messages.
    --version   -v    Prints version information.

      path            Path to a staticbuild.json file or directory to find one.
                      If no path is supplied, the current directory is used.