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[56]1# aya
[9]2
[56]3aya is an extremely minimal static site generator written in Go.
[9]4
[65]5Named 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]6
7## Features
8
9* Zero configuration (no configuration file needed)
10* Cross-platform
11* Highly extensible
[39]12* Works well for blogs and generic static websites (landing pages etc)
[75]13* Easy to learn (you literally don't need to)
14* Fast (goes without saying)
[9]15
16## Installation
17
[68]18Build it manually assuming you have Go (>=1.17) installed:
[9]19
[80]20 $ go install marisa.chaotic.ninja/aya/cmd/aya@latest (1)
[65]21 --- or ---
22 $ git clone https://git.chaotic.ninja/yakumo.izuru/aya
23 $ cd aya
24 $ make
25 # make install
[80]26
27(1) If you use this method, the `aya version` subcommand may print the wrong string,
28but it should not be a problem unless you use it on a page.
29
[9]30## Ideology
31
[80]32Keep your texts in markdown, [amber](https://github.com/eknkc/amber), or html format right in the main directory
[39]33of your blog/site.
[9]34
35Keep all service files (extensions, layout pages, deployment scripts etc)
[56]36in the `.aya` subdirectory.
[9]37
[80]38Define variables in the header of the content files using [YAML](https://www.yaml.io) :
[9]39
[80]40```markdown
41title: My web site
42keywords: best website, hello, world
43---
[9]44
[80]45Markdown text goes after a header *separator*
46```
[9]47
48Use placeholders for variables and plugins in your markdown or html
[39]49files, e.g. `{{ title }}` or `{{ command arg1 arg2 }}.
[9]50
[56]51Write extensions in any language you like and put them into the `.aya`
[9]52subdiretory.
53
[80]54Everything the extensions prints to [stdout](https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?fd) becomes the value of the
[9]55placeholder.
56
[81]57Every variable from the content header will be passed via environment variables like `title` becomes `$AYA_TITLE` and so on.
[80]58There are some special variables:
[9]59
[56]60* `$AYA` - a path to the `aya` executable
[81]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
[9]64
65## Example of RSS generation
66
[39]67Extensions 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:
68
69``` bash
[65]70#!/bin/sh
71echo "Generating RSS feed"
72
73echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>' > $AYA_OUTDIR/blog/rss.xml
74echo '<rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/">' >> $AYA_OUTDIR/blog/rss.xml
75echo '<channel>' >> $AYA_OUTDIR/blog/rss.xml
76for f in ./blog/*/*.md ; do
77 d=$($AYA var $f date)
78 if [ ! -z $d ] ; then
79 timestamp=`gdate --date "$d" +%s`
80 url=`$AYA var $f url`
81 title=`$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>"
84 fi
85done | sort -r -n | cut -d' ' -f2- >> $AYA_OUTDIR/blog/rss.xml
86echo '</channel>' >> $AYA_OUTDIR/blog/rss.xml
87echo '</rss>' >> $AYA_OUTDIR/blog/rss.xml
[39]88```
89
[9]90## Hooks
91
92There are two special plugin names that are executed every time the build
[39]93happens - `prehook` and `posthook`. You can define some global actions here like
94content generation, or additional commands, like LESS to CSS conversion:
[9]95
[56]96 # .aya/post
[9]97
98 #!/bin/sh
[56]99 lessc < $AYA_OUTDIR/styles.less > $AYA_OUTDIR/styles.css
100 rm -f $AYA_OUTDIR/styles.css
[9]101
[80]102Note, you can also place `.gcss` files for [gcss](https://github.com/yosssi/gcss) to process instead
[65]103
[9]104## Command line usage
105
[56]106`aya build` re-builds your site.
[9]107
[56]108`aya build <file>` re-builds one file and prints resulting content to stdout.
[39]109
[61]110`aya serve` serves your site over HTTP.
[9]111
[56]112`aya var <filename> [var1 var2...]` prints a list of variables defined in the
[9]113header of a given markdown file, or the values of certain variables (even if
114it's an empty string).
115
[61]116`aya watch` rebuilds your site every time you modify any file.
117
[9]118## License
119
[81]120The software is distributed under the MIT/X11 license.
[68]121
122---
123
124Ayaya~
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