Vox

Vox is a static site generator.

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Install

Mac

brew install hughbien/tap/vox

If you already have Crystal installed, use --ignore-dependencies crystal

Linux

Download the latest binary:

wget -O /usr/local/bin/vox https://github.com/hughbien/vox/releases/download/v0.1.2/vox-linux-amd64
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/vox

MD5 checksum is 9ec28ad7eac3ebc34f9c8ae9dee06f96.

From Source

Crystal is required. Checkout this repo, run make and make install:

git clone https://github.com/hughbien/vox.git
cd vox
make
make install

Usage

A default directory sturcture looks like this:

root
| src/
    | assets/
        | hello_world.jpg
    | css/
        | reset.css
        | styles.css
    | js/
        | library.js
        | script.js
    | _site.html
    | 404.md
    | contact.md
    | index.md

Running vox will generate a target directory with:

• fingerprinted assets
• minified and fingerprinted js/css
• rendered HTML

root
| src/...
| target/
    | assets/
        | hello_world.{{fingerprint}}.jpg
    | all.{{fingerprint}}.css
    | all.{{fingerprint}}.js
    | 404.html
    | contact.html
    | index.html

Development

Use make for common tasks:

make build                   # build `bin/vox` binary
make build-static             # build static release for Linux
make install                 # copy `bin/vox` binary into system bin (using $INSTALL_BIN)
make spec                    # run all tests
make spec ARGS=path/to/spec  # run single test
make clean                   # remove build artifacts and bin directory
make run                     # run vox locally
make run ARGS=-h             # run vox with local arguments

TODO

• fix rss html (mark as cdata or escape html)
• add ability to inline/flatten db/frontmatter vars
• fix scope of page vars, no need to pass huge assets/vars to all other pages
• fix uglifyjs/css to work with asdf/.tools-versions
• fix output errors and stop build on uglifyjs/css syntax errors
• fix links/next/prev yaml for pages missing frontmatter
• add icon system: css-generator + static-fill, on-page + dynamic-fill
• add terser (sub-uglifyjs) for ES6
• fix rss: reversed, limits, timezone (via config)
• update prints to reference full path (reconsider _ext formats)
• add list/matcher apply to frontmatter
• add server: custom port, target regeneration
• add generator (allow customizing): Makefile, gitignore, nginx-config/htaccess, fonts, icons, reset-css
• spec_helper: root/src/target setup/teardown
• specs: cleanup/config/classify/command/db/hooks/list/front-matter/rss/generators/patch
• add remove target dir at start, target blocking on already existing files for copy/render
• add rss: via-lists, categories
• add sitemap
• add yaml tools for db/frontmatter: include, read, write
• add bundling support: typescript, babel, scss
• add cache, only regenerate pages that update
• fix excludes/render_excludes for bundle files (js/css/etc...) to keep curly brackets
• fix large asset size causes longer render time
• fix speed up render time as fast as possible

License

Copyright 2021 Hugh Bien.

Released under BSD License, see LICENSE for details.