Static site approach

An approach to static site generation

• Use a Makefile to coordinate page generation
• Generate pages using shell scripts
• Embed content in shell scripts using heredocs
• Use pipes and command line utilities to transform content
• Track changes using git
• Auto rebuild

Examples

• this tilde

Scripts used on this site

• Makefile
• template.html.sh
• gitfeed

Potential downsides

• complexity
• mixing presentation and content

See also

• ~rklett's discussion of static site generators
• ~datagrok's m4-bakery