Bake

A static site generator that's just Pandoc and Make.

Bake isn't a CMS, or a blog engine. It lets you publish a static site written in markdown, or manual html, or whatever.

The Makefile is the relevant code. The rest of the repository is a description of this site whose correct generation is evidence of Bake working. A mechanism for automated testing of the product isn't planned, but definitely possible.

Use

Use these instructions to deploy a site with GitHub pages.

Create a git repository for your content, and copy the Makefile from Bake.

git init
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fcanas/bake/master/Makefile > Makefile

Build the site to see locally:

make

or build the site and deploy to GitHub pages.

make deploy

The Makefile has a deploy recipe to push a git subtree to GitHub pages if your remote is setup as github. You can edit that area of the Makefile if that doesn't match your configuration.

Dependencies

Have Make on your system.

Install Pandoc

See Pandoc's installation instructions or try

brew install pandoc

Bake Source

# Rule for converting github flavored markdown to html5
MARKDOWN := pandoc --template template.tmp -c writ.min.css --from markdown_github --to html5 --standalone


DEPLOY = deploy
# Deploy directory.
# Excluded from source search. Prepended to all output files
DEPLOY_DIRECTORY = ./$(DEPLOY)/

# Source control directory, also excluded from source search
SRC_CTL = .git

find_all = $(shell find . -type f -name $(1))

# All markdown files. Recursive search with `find`
ALL_MD = $(call find_all,'*.md')
# $(shell find . -type f -name '*.md')

# For all known markdown files: change md extension to html and prepend the
# deploy directory.
HTML_FROM_MD := $(patsubst %.md,%.html,$(ALL_MD))

# Map a function that takes two arguments
map = $(foreach a,$(3),$(call $(1),$(2),$(a)))
PROCESS_TYPES = %.md

### Identity Files
# All files that should be deployed as-is
# Start assuming all files
ALL = $(call find_all,'*.*')
# Non-identity types are types we want to process
# anything in the deploy directory
# and files we want to ignore:
EXCLUDE_TYPES = $(PROCESS_TYPES) $(DEPLOY_DIRECTORY)% ./%.DS_Store ./.git% %.tmp

# filter out types
ALL_IDENTITY := $(call map,filter-out,$(EXCLUDE_TYPES),$(ALL))

# Everything that needs deploying :
# all the identity files
# and all the html files derived from markdown
ALL_TO_DEPLOY = $(ALL_IDENTITY) $(HTML_FROM_MD)
DEPLOY_TARGETS := $(subst ./,$(DEPLOY_DIRECTORY),$(ALL_TO_DEPLOY))

# First recipe is default. Nothing to do except dependency on all html files.
bake: $(DEPLOY_TARGETS)

clean:
    @rm -rf $(DEPLOY_DIRECTORY)

# Recipe for html files in the deploy directory for a corresponding markdown
# file
$(addprefix $(DEPLOY_DIRECTORY),%.html): %.md template.tmp writ.min.css
    @echo Converting: $<
    @mkdir -p $(dir $@)
    @$(MARKDOWN) $< --output $@

$(addprefix $(DEPLOY_DIRECTORY),%.html): %.html
    @echo Moving $< to $@
    @mkdir -p $(dir $@)
    @cp $< $@

$(addprefix $(DEPLOY_DIRECTORY),%.css): %.css
    @echo Moving $< to $@
    @mkdir -p $(dir $@)
    @cp $< $@

REMOTE = github
BRANCH = gh-pages

deploy: undeploy bake
    git add $(DEPLOY)
    git commit -m 'Deploy'
    git subtree push --prefix=$(DEPLOY) $(REMOTE) $(BRANCH)

undeploy:
    git push $(REMOTE) `git subtree split --prefix $(DEPLOY) $(BRANCH)`:$(BRANCH) --force