Crystallize

A static site generator, maybe

Ideally with just enough content compatibility to reproduce the out from my middleman-powered blog — but much quicker. Currently It takes 10-15mins to render ~1600 pages

It'll be pretty opinionated, with the first goal to be able to render my blog before potentially branching out to be more general purpose. I don't much care for some that can render anything if it can't solve my immediate needs. Likewise, it'll never be as overly complex as Hugo — if you enjoy configuring something to that degree just use Hugo.

Tasks and ideas, in no particular order

• Serve files
• Parse YAML frontmatter
• Copy files without processing
• Call external tools for processing, e.g. compress images, concat javascript
• Render markdown files to disk
• Render ERC files to disk
• Blog post rendering (i.e., 2017-01-01-my-post.md => /2017/01/01/mypost.html)
• Templates and partials
• Tags
• Basic view helpers (link_to, stylesheet etc)
• Render XML files for sitemaps/rss feeds
• Livereload
• Incremental builds
• Upload to s3
• Syntax highlighting of markdown
• Byte-for-byte translation of my blog (crystallize output == middleman output)

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/ideasasylum/crystallize/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

Contributors

• ideasasylum Jamie Lawrence - creator, maintainer