3 aya is an extremely minimal static site generator written in Go.
5 Named after [Aya Shameimaru](https://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Aya_Shameimaru) from [Touhou 9.5: Shoot the Bullet](https://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Shoot_the_Bullet)
9 * Zero configuration (no configuration file needed)
12 * Works well for blogs and generic static websites (landing pages etc)
13 * Easy to learn (you literally don't need to)
14 * Fast (goes without saying)
18 Build it manually assuming you have Go (>=1.17) installed:
20 $ go install marisa.chaotic.ninja/aya/cmd/aya@latest (1)
22 $ git clone https://git.chaotic.ninja/yakumo.izuru/aya
27 (1) If you use this method, the `aya version` subcommand may print the wrong string,
28 but it should not be a problem unless you use it on a page.
32 Keep your texts in markdown, [amber](https://github.com/eknkc/amber), or html format right in the main directory
35 Keep all service files (extensions, layout pages, deployment scripts etc)
36 in the `.aya` subdirectory.
38 Define variables in the header of the content files using [YAML](https://www.yaml.io) :
42 keywords: best website, hello, world
45 Markdown text goes after a header *separator*
48 Use placeholders for variables and plugins in your markdown or html
49 files, e.g. `{{ title }}` or `{{ command arg1 arg2 }}.
51 Write extensions in any language you like and put them into the `.aya`
54 Everything the extensions prints to [stdout](https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?fd) becomes the value of the
57 Every variable from the content header will be passed via environment variables like `title` becomes `$AYA_TITLE` and so on.
58 There are some special variables:
60 * `$AYA` - a path to the `aya` executable
61 * `$AYA_OUTDIR` - a path to the directory with generated files
62 * `$AYA_FILE` - a path to the currently processed markdown file
63 * `$AYA_URL` - a URL for the currently generated page
65 ## Example of RSS generation
67 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:
71 echo "Generating RSS feed"
73 echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>' > $AYA_OUTDIR/blog/rss.xml
74 echo '<rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/">' >> $AYA_OUTDIR/blog/rss.xml
75 echo '<channel>' >> $AYA_OUTDIR/blog/rss.xml
76 for f in ./blog/*/*.md ; do
79 timestamp=`gdate --date "$d" +%s`
81 title=`$AYA var $f title | tr A-Z a-z`
82 descr=`$AYA var $f description`
83 echo $timestamp "<item><title>$title</title><link>https://technicalmarisa.chaotic.ninja/blog/$url</link><description>$descr</description><pubDate>$(gdate --date @$timestamp -R)</pubDate><guid>http://technicalmarisa.chaotic.ninja/blog/$url</guid></item>"
85 done | sort -r -n | cut -d' ' -f2- >> $AYA_OUTDIR/blog/rss.xml
86 echo '</channel>' >> $AYA_OUTDIR/blog/rss.xml
87 echo '</rss>' >> $AYA_OUTDIR/blog/rss.xml
92 There are two special plugin names that are executed every time the build
93 happens - `prehook` and `posthook`. You can define some global actions here like
94 content generation, or additional commands, like LESS to CSS conversion:
99 lessc < $AYA_OUTDIR/styles.less > $AYA_OUTDIR/styles.css
100 rm -f $AYA_OUTDIR/styles.css
102 Note, you can also place `.gcss` files for [gcss](https://github.com/yosssi/gcss) to process instead
104 ## Command line usage
106 `aya build` re-builds your site.
108 `aya build <file>` re-builds one file and prints resulting content to stdout.
110 `aya serve` serves your site over HTTP.
112 `aya var <filename> [var1 var2...]` prints a list of variables defined in the
113 header of a given markdown file, or the values of certain variables (even if
114 it's an empty string).
116 `aya watch` rebuilds your site every time you modify any file.
120 The software is distributed under the MIT/X11 license.