An opinionated static site generator written in Rust.
You can get the latest release by going to the Release page.
Alternatively, if you have the rust toolchain on your computer, you can also install it
through Cargo: cargo install gutenberg
.
Use gutenberg init <a_directory_name>
.
This will create a folder with the name given and the base structure of a gutenberg site.
Use gutenberg serve
to spin up a server that will automatically live reload any changes to the
content, templates or static files.
Use gutenberg build
to generate the site in the public/
directory.
Some words are going to be repeated in the docs so let's make sure they are clear.
content
directory that has a name different from _index.md
content
directory that has _index.md
in the same folderConfiguration is using the TOML language.
Only 2 parameters are required: title
and base_url
.
The other options are:
highlight_code
: Whether to highlight all code blocks found in markdown files. Defaults to falsehighlight_theme
: Which themes to use for code highlighting. Defaults to “base16-ocean-dark”language_code
: The language used in the site. Defaults to “en”generate_rss
: Whether to generate RSS, defaults to falsegenerate_tags_pages
: Whether to generate tags and individual tag pages if some pages have them. Defaults to truegenerate_categories_pages
: Whether to generate categories and individual category categories if some pages have them. Defaults to trueIf you want to add some of your own variables, you will need to put them in the [extra]
table in config.toml
or
they will be silently ignored.
Templates live in the templates/
directory and the files need to end by .html
.
Only Tera templates are supported.
Each kind of page get their own variables:
// TODO: detail the schema of the variables
section
representing the index section and all sections
page
that contains the data for that pagesection
that contains the data for pages in it and its subsectionstags
tag
and pages
categories
category
and pages
Additionally, all pages get a config
variable representing the data in config.toml
, current_url
that represent
the absolute URL of the current page and current_path
that represents the path of the URL of the current page, starting with /
.
If you want to know all the data present in a template content, simply put {{ __tera_context }}
in the templates and it will print it.
Everything in the static
folder will be copied into the output directory as-is.
Pages have to start with a front-matter enclosed in +++
. Here is a minimal example:
+++
title = "My page"
description = "Some meta info"
+++
A simple page with fixed url
A front-matter has only optional variables:
{config.base_url}/{url}
Even if your front-matter is empty, you will need to put the +++
.
You can also, like in the config, add your own variables in a [extra]
table.
The front-matter will be accessible in templates at the page.meta
field.
By default, the URL of a page will follow the filesystem paths. For example, if you have
a page at content/posts/python3.md
, it will be available at {config.base_url}/posts/python3/
.
You can override the slug created from the filename by setting the slug
variable in the front-matter.
Quite often, a page will have assets and you might want to co-locate them with the markdown file.
Gutenberg supports that pattern out of the box: you can create a folder, put a file named index.md
and any number of files
along with it that are NOT markdown.
Those assets will be copied in the same folder when building so you can just use a relative path to use them.
A summary is only defined if you put <!-- more -->
in the content. If present in a page, the summary will be from
the start up to that tag.
Sections represent a group of pages, for example a tutorials
section of your site.
Sections are only created in Gutenberg when a file named _index.md
is found in the content
directory.
This _index.md
file needs to include a front-matter as well, but won't have content:
+++
title = "Tutorials"
+++
You can also set the template
variable to change which template will be used to render that section.
Sections will also automatically pick up their subsections, allowing you to make some complex pages layout and table of contents.
You can define how a section pages are sorted using the sort_by
key in the front-matter. The choices are date
, order
and none
(default). Pages that can't be sorted will currently be silently dropped: the final page will be rendered but it will not appear in
the pages
variable in the section template.
A special case is the _index.md
at the root of the content
directory which represents the homepage. It is only there
to control pagination and sorting of the homepage.
You can also paginate section, including the index by setting the paginate_by
field in the front matter to an integer.
This represents the number of pages for each pager of the paginator.
You will need to access pages through the paginator
object. (TODO: document that).
Each page/section will generate a table of content based on the title. It is accessible through section.toc
and
page.toc
. It is a list of headers that contains a permalink
, a title
and children
.
Here is an example on how to make a ToC using that:
<ul>
{% for h1 in page.toc %}
<li>
<a href="{{h1.permalink | safe}}">{{ h1.title }}</a>
{% if h1.children %}
<ul>
{% for h2 in h1.children %}
<li>
<a href="{{h2.permalink | safe}}">{{ h2.title }}</a>
</li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>
{% endif %}
</li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>
While headers are neatly ordered in that example, you can a table of contents looking like h2, h2, h1, h3 without any issues.
Individual tag/category pages are only supported for pages having a date.
Code highlighting can be turned on by setting highlight_code = true
in config.toml
.
When turned on, all text between backticks will be highlighted, like the example below.
let site = Site::new();
If the name of the language is not given, it will default to plain-text highlighting.
Gutenberg uses Sublime Text themes for syntax highlighting. It comes with the following theme built-in:
You can have internal links in your markdown that will be replaced with the full URL when rendering.
To do so, use the normal markdown link syntax, start the link with ./
and point to the .md
file you want
to link to. The path to the file starts from the content
directory.
For example, linking to a file located at content/pages/about.md
would be [my link](./pages/about.md)
.
Headers get an automatic id from their content in order to be able to add deep links.
You can also choose, at the section level, whether to automatically insert an anchor link next to it. It is turned off by default
but can be turned on by setting insert_anchor = "left"
or insert_anchor = "right"
in the _index.md
file. left
will insert
the anchor link before the title text and right will insert it after.
The default template is very basic and will need CSS tweaks in your project to look decent.
It can easily be overwritten by creating a anchor-link.html
file in the templates
directory.
Gutenberg uses markdown for content but sometimes you want to insert some HTML, for example for a YouTube video. Rather than copy/pasting the HTML around, Gutenberg supports shortcodes, allowing you to define templates using Tera and call those templates inside markdown.
There are 2 kinds of shortcodes: simple ones and those that take some content as body. All shortcodes need to be preceded by a blank line or they will be contained in a paragraph.
Simple shortcodes are called the following way:
{{ youtube(id="my_youtube_id") }}
Shortcodes with a body are called like so:
{% quote(author="Me", link="https://google.com") %}
My quote
{% end %}
The shortcodes names are taken from the files they are defined in, for example a shortcode with the name youtube will try to render
the template at templates/shortcodes/youtube.html
.
Gutenberg comes with a few built-in shortcodes:
id
. Also takes an optional autoplay
argument that can be set to true
if wantedid
id
url
given. Also takes an optional file
argument if you only want to show one of the filesAll shortcodes need to be in the templates/shortcodes
folder and their files to end with .html
.
Shortcodes templates are simple Tera templates, with all the args being directly accessible in the template.
In case of shortcodes with a body, the body will be passed as the body
variable.
Syntax highlighting depends on submodules so ensure you load them first:
$ git submodule update --init
Gutenberg only works with syntaxes in the .sublime-syntax
format. If your syntax
is in .tmLanguage
format, open it in Sublime Text and convert it to sublime-syntax
by clicking on
Tools > Developer > New Syntax from ... and put it at the root of sublime_syntaxes
.
You can also add a submodule to the repository of the wanted syntax:
$ cd sublime_syntaxes
$ git submodule add https://github.com/elm-community/Elm.tmLanguage.git
Note that you can also only copy manually the updated syntax definition file but this means Gutenberg won't be able to automatically update it.
You can check for any updates to the current packages by running:
$ git submodule update --remote --merge
And finally from the root of the repository run the following command:
$ cargo run --example generate_sublime synpack sublime_syntaxes sublime_syntaxes/newlines.packdump sublime_syntaxes/nonewlines.packdump
A gallery containing lots of themes at https://tmtheme-editor.herokuapp.com/#!/editor/theme/Agola%20Dark.
More themes can be easily added to gutenberg, just make a PR with the wanted theme added in the sublime_themes
directory
and run the following command from the repository root:
$ cargo run --example generate_sublime themepack sublime_themes sublime_themes/all.themedump
You should see the list of themes being added.