package finch

Finch

A simple and fast¹ site generator.

Can be used as:

• A generic static site generator using markdown files with frontmatter and Jingoo (very similar to Jinja) templates
• A tiny version of Gatsby -- generate static pages from React components
• A server side renderer to produce static pages with React components that are hydrated by scripts (see the examples directory)

Installation

With opam: opam pin add finch https://github.com/roddyyaga/finch.git

It is also available as a Docker container: docker run -v $(pwd):/finch roddylm/finch:latest -help

Use

Make a directory called layouts. Add template files to it with {{ page.content }} where the content of a page being rendered should go. Then make a directory called content. Add files to it that look like this:

---
layout: "path/to/a/template/relative/to/layouts"
other: "variables"
if: "you want"
---
The *content* of the page in [markdown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown).

Then run finch. The output site will be in the directory site.

See here for detailed documentation.

1 From ad hoc comparisons, about twice as fast as Hugo to build simple sites with 10,000-100,000 pages, and successfully built a site with 500,000 pages where Hugo froze my machine. ↩