[ANN] Foliage: a static site generator

>
> Hi,
>
> I’ve been toying around with a web site generator the last months. Some people were showing interest and asked me to release it. It is still pretty basic but I manage my blog with it . I’m all open ears about what you think, what doesn’t work and what is missing.
>
> Please read about it
>
> https://norbert.hartl.name/blog/2021-01-17-foliage-released.html
>
> Hopy you like it,
>
> Norbert
>

> Hi,
>
> I’ve been toying around with a web site generator the last months.
> Some people were showing interest and asked me to release it. It is
> still pretty basic but I manage my blog with it . I’m all open ears
> about what you think, what doesn’t work and what is missing.
>
> Please read about it 
>
> https://norbert.hartl.name/blog/2021-01-17-foliage-released.html
> <https://norbert.hartl.name/blog/2021-01-17-foliage-released.html>
>
> Hopy you like it,
>
> Norbert
>

> Am 19.01.2021 um 00:57 schrieb Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas <[hidden email]>:
>
> Pretty cool! Thanks Norbert. BTW I'm using your Mustache library and
> Futures patch for building Brea (explained below), so triple thanks :-).
>
> On a similar front I'm building Brea, which is kind of between a static
> site generators, because it builds a web site from Markdown files
> (thanks to Pandoc) and a deucopled CMS because it provides an API to
> query the site and its data thanks to Fossil. As usual, Pharo glues all
> together and brings dynamic data manipulation.
>
> We have been documenting it pretty actively (in Spanish) in [1] and the
> source code repository is at [2]. Brea follows the self referential
> tradition of Smalltalk/Pharo so the site at [1] is done in Brea.
>
> The idea is pretty simple: a HTML5UP[3] base template site (see [3a]),
> is downloaded and a Mustache template (see [3b]) is build from it so a
> set of Markdown files can be injected in such template to produce the
> correspondent HTML output (see [3c]). Everything is versioned in Fossil,
> which provides us with an integrated web UI with version control. The
> template page can have sparks of JavaScript here and there to extent the
> site functionality (like in JamStack[4] approach). For example, by
> clicking  the marker at the top right of the page[5] you can get the
> page comments[5], powered by hypothesis[5b]. Page metadata for such
> extended functionality or linking the page with the repository is stored
> as YAML front page or added at creation time.
>
> The code to install a theme is at [6] and to  create a page on [6a].
> Notice that page creation is only 7 lines, while extra lines are related
> with metadata for extra functionality.
>
> As we advance mainly by community workshops and projects on a voluntary
> basis (and with microgrants like the one of ESUG, which makes a
> macro-difference here), now our community explorations led us more
> towards the dynamic counterpart of web site creation, this time
> combining Fossil, TiddlyWiki and Pharo [7][7a]. So Brea is a little bit
> quiet after last year ending. I hope once we have matured the dynamic
> web site counterpart we can retake this again and build momentum around
> such projects.
>
> So, I think Pharo is getting to an interesting point regarding web site
> generation and is good to have a panoramic overview of what is possible,
> even with this early developments like Foliage and Brea.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Offray
>
> == Links:
>
> [1] https://mutabit.com/repos.fossil/indieweb/
> [2] https://code.tupale.co/Offray/Brea
> [3] https://html5up.net/
> [3a] https://html5up.net/editorial
> [3b]
> https://mutabit.com/repos.fossil/indieweb/doc/trunk/docs/es/pagina.mus.html
> [3c]
> https://mutabit.com/repos.fossil/indieweb/tree?ci=trunk&type=tree&name=docs/es
> [4] https://jamstack.org/
> [5] https://mutabit.com/repos.fossil/indieweb/doc/trunk/docs/es/index.html
> [5a]
> https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmutabit.com%2Frepos.fossil%2Findieweb%2Fdoc%2Ftrunk%2Fdocs%2Fes%2Findex.html&group=__world__
> [5b]
> [6] http://ws.stfx.eu/OOAPJW34PAWW
> [6a] http://ws.stfx.eu/6990ECTMZRNY
> [7] https://fossil-scm.org/forum/forumpost/c650e4c2cd?t=h
> [7a]
> https://mutabit.com/repos.fossil/offray-blog/uv/bliki/index.html#Portfolio
>
> On 18/01/21 9:11 a. m., Norbert Hartl wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I’ve been toying around with a web site generator the last months.
>> Some people were showing interest and asked me to release it. It is
>> still pretty basic but I manage my blog with it . I’m all open ears
>> about what you think, what doesn’t work and what is missing.
>>
>> Please read about it
>>
>> https://norbert.hartl.name/blog/2021-01-17-foliage-released.html
>> <https://norbert.hartl.name/blog/2021-01-17-foliage-released.html>
>>
>> Hopy you like it,
>>
>> Norbert
>>

> Thank you for the kind works. And thank you very much for bring tiddlywiki back to my mind. I was looking into when scanning tools for note taking. But I think this can be an addition for foliage. I will see if it works like I want to be.
>
> Norbert
>
>
>> Am 19.01.2021 um 00:57 schrieb Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas <[hidden email]>:
>>
>> Pretty cool! Thanks Norbert. BTW I'm using your Mustache library and
>> Futures patch for building Brea (explained below), so triple thanks :-).
>>
>> On a similar front I'm building Brea, which is kind of between a static
>> site generators, because it builds a web site from Markdown files
>> (thanks to Pandoc) and a deucopled CMS because it provides an API to
>> query the site and its data thanks to Fossil. As usual, Pharo glues all
>> together and brings dynamic data manipulation.
>>
>> We have been documenting it pretty actively (in Spanish) in [1] and the
>> source code repository is at [2]. Brea follows the self referential
>> tradition of Smalltalk/Pharo so the site at [1] is done in Brea.
>>
>> The idea is pretty simple: a HTML5UP[3] base template site (see [3a]),
>> is downloaded and a Mustache template (see [3b]) is build from it so a
>> set of Markdown files can be injected in such template to produce the
>> correspondent HTML output (see [3c]). Everything is versioned in Fossil,
>> which provides us with an integrated web UI with version control. The
>> template page can have sparks of JavaScript here and there to extent the
>> site functionality (like in JamStack[4] approach). For example, by
>> clicking  the marker at the top right of the page[5] you can get the
>> page comments[5], powered by hypothesis[5b]. Page metadata for such
>> extended functionality or linking the page with the repository is stored
>> as YAML front page or added at creation time.
>>
>> The code to install a theme is at [6] and to  create a page on [6a].
>> Notice that page creation is only 7 lines, while extra lines are related
>> with metadata for extra functionality.
>>
>> As we advance mainly by community workshops and projects on a voluntary
>> basis (and with microgrants like the one of ESUG, which makes a
>> macro-difference here), now our community explorations led us more
>> towards the dynamic counterpart of web site creation, this time
>> combining Fossil, TiddlyWiki and Pharo [7][7a]. So Brea is a little bit
>> quiet after last year ending. I hope once we have matured the dynamic
>> web site counterpart we can retake this again and build momentum around
>> such projects.
>>
>> So, I think Pharo is getting to an interesting point regarding web site
>> generation and is good to have a panoramic overview of what is possible,
>> even with this early developments like Foliage and Brea.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Offray
>>
>> == Links:
>>
>> [1] https://mutabit.com/repos.fossil/indieweb/
>> [2] https://code.tupale.co/Offray/Brea
>> [3] https://html5up.net/
>> [3a] https://html5up.net/editorial
>> [3b]
>> https://mutabit.com/repos.fossil/indieweb/doc/trunk/docs/es/pagina.mus.html
>> [3c]
>> https://mutabit.com/repos.fossil/indieweb/tree?ci=trunk&type=tree&name=docs/es
>> [4] https://jamstack.org/
>> [5] https://mutabit.com/repos.fossil/indieweb/doc/trunk/docs/es/index.html
>> [5a]
>> https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmutabit.com%2Frepos.fossil%2Findieweb%2Fdoc%2Ftrunk%2Fdocs%2Fes%2Findex.html&group=__world__
>> [5b]
>> [6] http://ws.stfx.eu/OOAPJW34PAWW
>> [6a] http://ws.stfx.eu/6990ECTMZRNY
>> [7] https://fossil-scm.org/forum/forumpost/c650e4c2cd?t=h
>> [7a]
>> https://mutabit.com/repos.fossil/offray-blog/uv/bliki/index.html#Portfolio
>>
>> On 18/01/21 9:11 a. m., Norbert Hartl wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I’ve been toying around with a web site generator the last months.
>>> Some people were showing interest and asked me to release it. It is
>>> still pretty basic but I manage my blog with it . I’m all open ears
>>> about what you think, what doesn’t work and what is missing.
>>>
>>> Please read about it
>>>
>>> https://norbert.hartl.name/blog/2021-01-17-foliage-released.html
>>> <https://norbert.hartl.name/blog/2021-01-17-foliage-released.html>
>>>
>>> Hopy you like it,
>>>
>>> Norbert
>>>