Babe

A data oriented static site generator built to enable the creation of sites that require more complex logic by allowing you to create new templating data based on the content, and mold it into a variety of shapes as you see fit, using a JSON configuration to do that.

Install

Locally

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/askonomm/babe/master/installer.sh | bash -s

You can then run babe as ./babe or ./babe watch, given that the Babe executable is in the current working directory.

Globally

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/askonomm/babe/master/installer.sh | bash -s -- -g

You can then run babe as babe or babe watch from anywhere.

Usage

Quick start

To get a quick start for your project, run babe init in a directory you want, and it will create the base project files for you in that directory. If you want it to create a new directory for you, run babe init {directory-name} and it will do just that.

Building

To build a Babe site, simply navigate to the directory where your Babe site is (where the babe.json file is) and run babe.

Watching

To watch a Babe site, which means Babe will listen for any file changes and build the site automatically on any change ( useful for developing), simply navigate to the directory where your Babe site is (where the babe.json file is) and run babe watch.

More

• Check out a sample site
• Creating content
• Creating templating data

Compile Babe yourself

Requires Java 11+, leiningen 2+ and GraalVM with Native Image to be installed.

1. Clone the repo
2. Run lein uberjar to create the target/babe.jar file
3. Run lein native to create a native binary file target/babe.

Now you have a native binary that you can use. You can, of course, just use the JAR file as well via java -jar babe.jar if you want, thereby skipping step 3.