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* Zero configuration (no configuration file needed)
* Cross-platform
* Highly extensible
* Works well for blogs and generic static websites (landing pages etc)
* Easy to learn
* Fast
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## Ideology
Keep your texts in markdown format in the root directory of your blog/site.
Keep your texts in markdown, [amber] or HTML format right in the main 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:
Define variables in the header of the content files using [YAML]:
title: My web site
keywords: best website, hello, world
---
Markdown text goes after a *newline*
Markdown text goes after a header *separator*
Use placeholders for variables and plugins in your markdown or html
files, e.g. `{{ title }}`.
files, e.g. `{{ title }}` or `{{ command arg1 arg2 }}.
Write extensions in any language you like and put them into the `.zs`
subdiretory.
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Everything the extensions prints to stdout becomes the value of the
placeholder.
Extensions can use special environment variables, like:
Every variable from the content header will be passed via environment variables like `title` becomes `$ZS_TITLE` and so on. There are some special variables:
* `$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
* `$ZS_URL` - a URL for the currently generated page
You can also pass command line arguments, e.g: `{{ my-plugin arg1 arg2 }}`
## Example of RSS generation
Extensions can be written in any language you know (Bash, Python, Lua, JavaScript, Go, even Assembler). Here's an example of how to scan all markdown blog posts and create RSS items:
``` bash
for f in ./blog/*.md ; do
d=$($ZS var $f date)
if [ ! -z $d ] ; then
timestamp=`date --date "$d" +%s`
url=`$ZS var $f url`
title=`$ZS var $f title | tr A-Z a-z`
descr=`$ZS var $f description`
echo $timestamp \
"<item>" \
"<title>$title</title>" \
"<link>http://zserge.com/$url</link>" \
"<description>$descr</description>" \
"<pubDate>$(date --date @$timestamp -R)</pubDate>" \
"<guid>http://zserge.com/$url</guid>" \
"</item>"
fi
done | sort -r -n | cut -d' ' -f2-
```
## 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:
happens - `prehook` and `posthook`. You can define some global actions here like
content generation, or additional commands, like LESS to CSS conversion:
# .zs/post
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lessc < $ZS_OUTDIR/styles.less > $ZS_OUTDIR/styles.css
rm -f $ZS_OUTDIR/styles.css
## Syntax sugar
By default, `zs` converts each `.amber` file into `.html`, so you can use lightweight Jade-like syntax instead of bloated HTML.
Also, `zs` converts `.gcss` into `.css`, so you don't really need LESS or SASS. More about GCSS can be found [here][gcss].
## Command line usage
`zs build` re-builds your site.
`zs build <file>` re-builds one file and prints resulting content to stdout.
`zs watch` rebuilds your site every time you modify any file.
`zs var <filename> [var1 var2...]` prints a list of variables defined in the
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## License
The software is distributed under the MIT license.
[amber]: https://github.com/eknkc/amber/
[YAML]: https://github.com/go-yaml/yaml
[gcss]: https://github.com/yosssi/gcss