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zs
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zs is an extremely minimal static site generator written in Go.
It's inspired by `zas` generator, but is even more minimal.
The name stands for 'zen static' as well as it's my initials.
## Features
* Zero configuration (no configuration file needed)
* Cross-platform
* Highly extensible
* Easy to learn
* Fast
## Installation
Download the binaries from Github or build it manually:
$ go get github.com/zserge/zs
## Ideology
Keep your texts in markdown format in the root directory of your blog/site.
Keep all service files (extensions, layout pages, deployment scripts etc)
in the `.zs` subdirectory.
Define variables in the header of the markdown files:
title: My web site
keywords: best website, hello, world
Markdown text goes after a *newline*
Use placeholders for variables and plugins in your markdown or html
files, e.g. `{{ title }}`.
Write extensions in any language you like and put them into the `.zs`
subdiretory.
Everything the extensions prints to stdout becomes the value of the
placeholder.
Extensions can use special environment variables, like:
* `$ZS` - a path to the `zs` executable
* `$ZS_OUTDIR` - a path to the directory with generated files
* `$ZS_FILE` - a path to the currently processed markdown file
* `$ZS_URL` - a URL for the currently generated page
You can also pass command line arguments, e.g: `{{ my-plugin arg1 arg2 }}`
## Example of RSS generation
## Hooks
There are two special plugin names that are executed every time the build
happens - `pre` and `post`. You can define some global action here like compile
your LESS to CSS etc:
# .zs/post
#!/bin/sh
lessc < $ZS_OUTDIR/styles.less > $ZS_OUTDIR/styles.css
rm -f $ZS_OUTDIR/styles.css
## Command line usage
`zs build` re-builds your site.
`zs watch` rebuilds your site every time you modify any file.
`zs var <filename> [var1 var2...]` prints a list of variables defined in the
header of a given markdown file, or the values of certain variables (even if
it's an empty string).
## License
The software is distributed under the MIT license.