Pagic

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The easiest way to generate static html page from markdown, built with Deno! πŸ¦•

Features

WARNING: This project is under development so api would changes without announce. The stable version will some soon when v1.0.0 finished.

Live demo

Getting started

Installation

# Install deno https://deno.land/#installation
curl -fsSL https://deno.land/x/install/install.sh | sh
# Install pagic
deno install --unstable --allow-read --allow-write --allow-net https://deno.land/x/pagic/mod.ts

Markdown + Layout => HTML

Let’s say we have a project like this:

docs/
β”œβ”€β”€ public/
└── src/
    β”œβ”€β”€ _layout.tsx
    └── index.md

The src/_layout.tsx is a simple react component:

// @deno-types="https://deno.land/x/types/react/v16.13.1/react.d.ts"
import React from 'https://dev.jspm.io/react@16.13.1';
import { PagicLayout } from 'https://deno.land/x/pagic/mod.ts';

const Layout: PagicLayout = ({ title, content }) => (
  <html>
    <head>
      <title>{title}</title>
      <meta charSet="utf-8" />
    </head>
    <body>{content}</body>
  </html>
);

export default Layout;

The src/index.md is a simple markdown file:

# Pagic

The easiest way to generate static html page from markdown, built with Deno! πŸ¦•

Then run:

pagic build

We’ll get an index.html file in public directory:

docs/
β”œβ”€β”€ public/
|   └── index.html
└── src/
    β”œβ”€β”€ _layout.tsx
    └── index.md

The content should be:

<html>
  <head>
    <title>Pagic</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
  </head>
  <body>
    <article>
      <h1 id="pagic">Pagic</h1>
      <p>The easiest way to generate static html page from markdown, built with Deno! πŸ¦•</p>
    </article>
  </body>
</html>

React component as a page

A react component can also be built to html:

docs/
β”œβ”€β”€ public/
|   β”œβ”€β”€ index.html
|   └── hello.html
└── src/
    β”œβ”€β”€ _layout.tsx
    β”œβ”€β”€ index.md
    └── hello.tsx

Here we build src/hello.tsx to public/hello.html, using src/_layout.tsx as the layout.

src/hello.tsx is a simple react component:

// @deno-types="https://deno.land/x/types/react/v16.13.1/react.d.ts"
import React from 'https://dev.jspm.io/react@16.13.1';

const Hello = () => <h1>Hello World</h1>;

export default Hello;

And public/hello.html would be:

<html>
  <head>
    <title></title>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>Hello World</h1>
  </body>
</html>

Copy static files

If there are other static files which are not end with .{md|tsx} or (start with _ and end with .tsx), we will simply copy them:

docs/
β”œβ”€β”€ public/
|   β”œβ”€β”€ assets
|   |   └── index.css
|   β”œβ”€β”€ index.html
|   └── hello.html
└── src/
    β”œβ”€β”€ assets
    |   └── index.css
    β”œβ”€β”€ _layout.tsx
    β”œβ”€β”€ _sidebar.tsx
    β”œβ”€β”€ index.md
    └── hello.tsx

Sub pages and layouts

We can have sub directory which contains markdown or component.

Sub directory can also have a _layout.tsx file.

For each markdown or react component, it will walk your file system looking for the nearest _layout.tsx. It starts from the current directory and then moves to the parent directory until it finds the _layout.tsx.

docs/
β”œβ”€β”€ public/
|   β”œβ”€β”€ assets
|   |   └── index.css
|   β”œβ”€β”€ index.html
|   └── hello.html
|   └── sub
|       └── index.html
└── src/
    β”œβ”€β”€ assets
    |   └── index.css
    β”œβ”€β”€ _layout.tsx
    β”œβ”€β”€ _sidebar.tsx
    |── index.md
    └── sub
        β”œβ”€β”€ _layout.tsx
        └── index.md

Front matter

Front matter allows us add extra meta data to markdown:

---
author: xcatliu
published: 2020-05-20
---

# Pagic

The easiest way to generate static html page from markdown, built with Deno! πŸ¦•

Every item in the front matter will pass to the _layout.tsx as the props:

// @deno-types="https://deno.land/x/types/react/v16.13.1/react.d.ts"
import React from 'https://dev.jspm.io/react@16.13.1';
import { PagicLayout } from 'https://deno.land/x/pagic/mod.ts';

const Layout: PagicLayout = ({ title, content, author, published }) => (
  <html>
    <head>
      <title>{title}</title>
      <meta charSet="utf-8" />
    </head>
    <body>
      {content}
      <footer>
        Author: <span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mrow><mi>a</mi><mi>u</mi><mi>t</mi><mi>h</mi><mi>o</mi><mi>r</mi></mrow><mo separator="true">,</mo><mi>P</mi><mi>u</mi><mi>b</mi><mi>l</mi><mi>i</mi><mi>s</mi><mi>h</mi><mi>e</mi><mi>d</mi><mo>:</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{author}, Published: </annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.8889em;vertical-align:-0.1944em;"></span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathnormal">a</span><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span><span class="mord mathnormal">t</span><span class="mord mathnormal">h</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.02778em;">or</span></span><span class="mpunct">,</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.1667em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">P</span><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span><span class="mord mathnormal">b</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.01968em;">l</span><span class="mord mathnormal">i</span><span class="mord mathnormal">s</span><span class="mord mathnormal">h</span><span class="mord mathnormal">e</span><span class="mord mathnormal">d</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">:</span></span></span></span>{published}
      </footer>
    </body>
  </html>
);

export default Layout;

Front matter in react component

In react component we can export a frontMatter variable:

// @deno-types="https://deno.land/x/types/react/v16.13.1/react.d.ts"
import React from 'https://dev.jspm.io/react@16.13.1';

const Hello = () => <h1>Hello World</h1>;

export default Hello;

export const frontMatter = {
  title: 'Hello World',
  author: 'xcatliu',
  published: '2020-05-20'
};

Configuration

It’s able to configurate pagic by adding a pagic.config.ts file. The default configuration is:

export default {
  srcDir: 'src',
  publicDir: 'public',
  ignore: [
    // Dot files
    '.*',
    // Node common files
    'package.json',
    'package-lock.json',
    'node_modules',
    // pagic.config.ts and pagic.config.tsx
    'pagic.config.{ts,tsx}',
    // https://docs.npmjs.com/using-npm/developers.html#keeping-files-out-of-your-package
    '.*.swp',
    '._*',
    '.DS_Store',
    '.git',
    '.hg',
    '.npmrc',
    '.lock-wscript',
    '.svn',
    '.wafpickle-*',
    'config.gypi',
    'CVS',
    'npm-debug.log'

    // ${config.publicDir} will be added later
  ],
  base: '/',
  theme: 'default',
  plugins: ['init', 'md', 'tsx', 'script', 'layout', 'write'],
  watch: false,
  serve: false,
  port: 8000
};

Your pagic.config.ts will be deep-merge to the default config, that is, your ignore and plugins will be appended to default, not replace it.

Plugins and themes

As you see default plugins are set to ['init', 'md', 'tsx', 'script', 'layout', 'write'].

We can add the optional plugins by setting the plugins in the pagic.config.ts file:

export default {
  srcDir: 'site',
  plugins: ['sidebar']
};

sidebar plugin will add a sidebar properity to the props.

We can also add our own plugin like this:

import myPlugin from './myPlugin.tsx';

export default {
  srcDir: 'site',
  plugins: [myPlugin]
};

To develop a myPlugin please checkout the built-in plugins.

Themes is under development, please come back later!

Use pagic as cli

pagic build

We can use pagic build to build static pages, there are some options while using build command:

pagic build [options]

# --watch  watch src dir change
# --serve  serve public dir
# --port   override default port

LICENSE

MIT

Have fun with pagic!