bob

Bob is a small static generator, for those who wants to maintain a personal website or blog, all from the command line.

Installation

It only is designed in bash script, and should work perfectly fine on any Unix like machine.

git clone https://github.com/SiwonP/bob.git
make install (not implement yet)

Usage

For a start, to generate an empty blog, type in the following in the directory where you want to put your blog in and follow the guide.

bob -i

It will create an index.html at the root of your folder, a drafts folder in which you will store all the posts you want to publish and a posts folder where the resulting posts in html will be stored.

To write a post, create a markdown file in the drafts folder whose name will also be its title, and convert it to an html file, type the following command from the root :

bob -p

The publishing command bob -p will rep-ublish all the drafts, that is why anytime you want a post removed, delete in from the drafts folder and re-publish your blog.

See the help for additional command, such as modification of the main configuration of the blog.

bob -h

TODO

• Make a proper header/footer for the posts (e.g. adding links to social networks such as tweeter, github, dev.to ...).
• Complete the CSS files.
• Support long arguments on the command line for more readability.
• Add a comment/like section ?
• Adding a git component, and a server configuration to allow synchronisation. Maybe the drafts folder on the personal computer triggers changes on the git repo of the server which re-publishes the blog automatically.
• Add a way to do all the construction of the blog on the personal computer but to send the html files to a distant server.
• Consider adding configuration files for some/all posts (if they need special javascript included e.g. MathJax, AJAX, sockets ...).
• Design a makefile to install the script on the bin directory for an easy access on the command line.