Hi everyone,

This week, I created my own SSG (static site generator) called nan1-ssg using JavaScript and node.js. My SSG will generate .html files from .txt files as specified by the user.

Some features of nan1-ssg are:

• Generating valid HTML5 files from .txt files and placed in the dist directory
• An index.html file is created which contain relative links to the generated HTML files
• Each HTML file uses a default stylesheet to improve beauty and readability

Usage

To use my SSG, node.js is required. After node.js is installed follow these steps to use the tool:

To use this tool:

1. Clone or download and extract the repo to a location on your computer.

2. Open a terminal/command window and navigate to the location where the tool is.

3. Run the npm install command:
   

npm install

1. Run the npm link command:

npm link

1. Start using the tool! For example:

nan1-ssg [-option]

A list of options:

Examples

For a text file:

node main -i hello.txt

For a directory:

node main -i Sherlock-Holmes-Selected-Stories

Files that are nested:

nan1-ssg -i "./Sherlock-Holmes-Selected-Stories/Silver Blaze.txt"

Files containing spaces:

node main -i "file with spaces.txt"

Link to repo: nan1-ssg

Example of generated static site: https://neilan99.github.io/