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# User Rev Content
1 yakumo_izuru 1.1 # aya
2    
3     aya is an extremely minimal static site generator written in Go.
4    
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)
6    
7     ## Features
8    
9     * Zero configuration (no configuration file needed)
10     * Cross-platform
11     * Highly extensible
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)
15    
16     ## Installation
17    
18     Build it manually provided you have Go (>=1.17) installed:
19    
20 yakumo_izuru 1.2 $ svn co https://svn.chaotic.ninja/svn/aya-yakumo.izuru
21 yakumo_izuru 1.1 $ cd aya
22     $ make
23     # make install
24    
25     (1) If you use this method, the `aya version` subcommand may print the wrong string,
26     but it should not be a problem unless you use it on a page.
27    
28     You can also disable certain features at build time, with the `-tags` switch.
29     Currently, these tags are available: `noamber`, `nogcss`.
30     See `go help buildconstraint` for more details.
31    
32     ## Ideology
33    
34     Keep your texts in markdown, [amber](https://github.com/eknkc/amber), or html format right in the main directory
35     of your blog/site.
36    
37     Keep all service files (extensions, layout pages, deployment scripts etc)
38     in the `.aya` subdirectory.
39    
40     Define variables in the header of the content files using [YAML](https://noyaml.com) :
41    
42     ```markdown
43     title: My web site
44     keywords: best website, hello, world
45     ---
46    
47     Markdown text goes after a header *separator*
48     ```
49    
50     Use placeholders for variables and plugins in your markdown or html
51     files, e.g. `{{ title }}` or `{{ command arg1 arg2 }}.
52    
53     Write extensions in any language you like and put them into the `.aya`
54     subdiretory.
55    
56     Everything the extensions prints to [stdout](https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?fd) becomes the value of the
57     placeholder.
58    
59     Every variable from the content header will be passed via environment variables like `title` becomes `$AYA_TITLE` and so on.
60     There are some special variables:
61    
62     * `$AYA` - a path to the `aya` executable
63     * `$AYA_OUTDIR` - a path to the directory with generated files
64     * `$AYA_FILE` - a path to the currently processed markdown file
65     * `$AYA_URL` - a URL for the currently generated page
66    
67     ## Example of RSS generation
68    
69     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:
70    
71     ``` bash
72     #!/bin/sh
73     echo "Generating RSS feed"
74    
75     echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>' > $AYA_OUTDIR/blog/rss.xml
76     echo '<rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/">' >> $AYA_OUTDIR/blog/rss.xml
77     echo '<channel>' >> $AYA_OUTDIR/blog/rss.xml
78     for f in ./blog/*/*.md ; do
79     d=$($AYA var $f date)
80     if [ ! -z $d ] ; then
81     timestamp=`gdate --date "$d" +%s`
82     url=`$AYA var $f url`
83     title=`$AYA var $f title | tr A-Z a-z`
84     descr=`$AYA var $f description`
85     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>"
86     fi
87     done | sort -r -n | cut -d' ' -f2- >> $AYA_OUTDIR/blog/rss.xml
88     echo '</channel>' >> $AYA_OUTDIR/blog/rss.xml
89     echo '</rss>' >> $AYA_OUTDIR/blog/rss.xml
90     ```
91    
92     ## Hooks
93     There are two special plugin names that are executed every time the build
94     happens - `prehook` and `posthook`. You can define some global actions here like
95     content generation, or additional commands, like LESS to CSS conversion
96    
97     Note, you can also place `.gcss` files for [gcss](https://github.com/yosssi/gcss) to process instead
98    
99     ## Command line usage
100     Read `aya(1)`
101    
102     ## License
103     The software is distributed under the [MIT/X11](LICENSE) license.
104    
105     ---
106    
107     Ayaya~