foonoo / foonoo

another static site generator

foonoo

Foonoo is yet another tool for converting regular text files into simple websites. It's inspired by well established projects like Jekyll, and similar to these other projects, foonoo produces outputs that can be hosted on virtually anything that can serve HTML files. You do not need any server side scripting to run the sites generated by foonoo.

By design, foonoo is an empty shell through which specific site builders work. As such, foonoo itself doesn't provide any site building features: the site builders that work through foonoo, however, do. Site builders determine how content directories should be structured, and they rely on these structures and their own internal rules to generate the markup that forms the final output site. This doesn't mean foonoo just sits idle while this process proceeds. Foonoo coordinates the operations of these generators by providing:

• A common interface through which site builders can access content for their site.
• An ecosystem for shared plugins that extend the sites.
• A transparent and extensible markup conversion system, which provides conversions for different text formats. (Markdown, reStructured, etc.),
• A common theming and templating infrastructure.
• An assets and media management system.
• And most importantly, a user interface through which end users can interact with the site builders.

With its structure of separated site builders, foonoo makes it possible to manage a complicated site that contains different sections—in a somewhat simplified manner—from a single project directory. Although this may seem overkill, this specific use case was the primary motivation for foonoo.

foonoo's Issues

Git Pushes should be Rejected when output is not writable

It happens that if the output directory for the static site is not writable by the git user the push is accepted but the site is not updated. Git pushes should fail in the case that the static site cannot be updated.

Smarter Images

I'm thinking of adding support for smarter image selection and rendering. This is partially inspired by latex. The goal will be to provide a very flexible image tag that can perform the following generate markup that exposes multiple file formats and sizes so the appropriate one could be loaded by the browser. As an example, a very large image, large.png, could be placed in an image directory. Once the image tag is used in the markdown, nyansapow could generate smaller sizes of the image for low dpi browsers, and different compressed formats such as jpeg and webp.