Jay - a static site generator for Roc

IMPORTANT: this project is not nearly done yet! The README below is aspirational!

Jay takes a directory of files and turns it into a website. Let's say you have the following source files:

index.md
blog.md
posts/
  a-great-day.md
static/
  image.jpg
  style.css
build.roc

Jay will turn those markdown files into HTML and produce a site with the following paths:

/index.html
/blog.html
/posts/a-great-day.html
/static/image.jpg
/static/style.css

You define the markdown conversion and any other transformations in build.roc.

Getting started

In a directory with some source files, create a file build.roc with the following contents:

#!/usr/bin/env roc
app [main] { pf: platform "github.com/jwoudenberg/roc-static-site" }

import pf.Pages

main = Pages.bootstrap

The shebang on the first line makes it a script. Run it by typing ./build.roc. This will:

• Replace build.roc with a draft site generation script that you can customize.
• Build an initial version of the site and serve it on a local port.
• Rebuild the site if you make changes to build.roc or source files.

Custom 404 page

If you generate a /404.html path then it will be served by the preview file server when it receives a request for a path it doesn't know.

Note that you might need to configure the host for your production static site for it to serve your custom 404 page in the same manner.