WARNING - DO NOT USE THIS PACKAGE. IT IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION.

A simple static site generator.

How it works

Gensist grabs a folder of markdown files and generates a website from it. The folder structure and filenames are preserved.

.                           .
└── content                 └── build
    ├── home.md      >>>        ├── home.html
    ├── index.md                ├── index.html
    └── info.md                 └── info.html

Commands

Command	Info
gensist new <name>	Create a new project
gensist	Build current folder
gensist build	Build current folder
gensist watch	Automatically rebuilds your website and reloads the browser tab when files are changed
gensist init	Generate missing files.
gensist -v	Display gensist version

Getting started:

Install gensist with "npm i -g gensist", generate a new project with "npm new my-website" and start it by running "gensist watch". Your browser should open a new tab and when you now make changes to your files the browser should automatically update the page as soon as you save them.

Config

You can configure gensist by placing a gensist.json file in the root your project (all paths are relative to the gensist.json file).

Property	Default value	Type	Description
title	"Gensist"	string	Title of your website - you can customize it further in template.html
input	content	string	Input folder
output	build	string	Output folder
template	template.html	string	The HTML template used to construct each page of your site
optimize	true	boolean	Tells gensist to compress the HTML/CSS
style	Not set	string[]	List of stylesheets to apply to the page
assets	Not set	string	Asset folder for images, fonts, etc.

If there is no gensist.json, gensist will fall back on this config (all properties are optional):

{
  "title": "Gensist",
  "input": "content",
  "output": "build",
  "template": "template.html",
  "optimize": true
}