julvo/tinystatic

A tiny static website generator which is flexible and easy to use

tinystatic's Issues

Skip compiling partials if no partial directory exists

Just used in production

Hello, I saw the app on Reddit. I just used it to migrate a website from php to pure html. I was using the php just for including partial html like header and footer so this project fit perfectly to the task. It was very easy to use and gives great control to user. Here are some remarks that might be useful:

• I think there should be a partial command for embedding partial into routes. Currently they can only be embedded in templates. My index page is unique, no need for templating, but it uses partials, so it would be very nice to have that command. I ended up defining a index_temp.html as a template with all the content and created my index.html in routes just with:

---
template: index_temp.html
---

For that workaround I had to create 2 files with similar names, so there is that.

• My website had 2 templates, and 6 routes in total. It was very fast for me to render them with this. One improvement would be to put your generate loop in main.go in a goroutine. Those tasks can run in parallel, I guess, so your code would be something like:

for _, r := range allRoutes {
       go func(route Route){
                if route.Href != "" {
			log.Println("∟", route.FilePath, "->", route.Href)
		}
		if err := route.Generate(outputDir, allRoutes); err != nil {
			log.Fatalln(err)
		}
         }(r)
	}

you can also get rid of outputDir & allRoutes parameters for the generate method. They are already known and constant so your AllRoutes() method can take them and return routes array with those information already embedded in them.

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I really liked the simplicity of the project. I didn't need a autoload server at all. Keeping a python server running in output and refreshing the page was enough. It really does not worth the effort of creating websockets for hot reloading.

A future milestone would be to minimize generated output. Basically removing whitespace from html and minifying assets. Hugo does that, but hugo is utterly complicated. So this is your call.