jbake-org / jbake

Java based open source static site/blog generator for developers & designers.

JBake

JBake is a Java based open source static site/blog generator for developers.

Documentation

Full documentation is available on jbake.org.

Contributing

We welcome all contributions to the project both big and small. From new features, bug reports to even spelling mistake corrections in the documentation. Please don’t hesitate to submit an issue.

The Contributing guide provides information on how to submit an issue or create a pull request to fix a bug or add a new feature to JBake.

Versioning

The project has adopted the Semantic Versioning spec from v2.2.0 onwards to maintain an understandable backwards compatibility strategy.

The version format is as follows:

<major>.<minor>.<patch>-<label>

• An increment of the major version represents incompatible API changes.

• An increment of the minor version represents additional functionality in a backwards-compatible manner.

• An increment of the patch version represents backwards-compatible bug fixes.

• Existence of a label represents a pre-release or build metadata.

Community

Talk to the developers behind JBake:

• Mailing list

• IRC - #jbake on Freenode

Talk to other users of JBake on the forum:

• Forum

Docker Image

The image uses the official adoptopenjdk/openjdk11:alpine image for building a distribution of JBake and adoptopenjdk/openjdk11:alpine-jre for runtime.

Build

To build the Docker image:

$ docker build -t jbake/jbake:latest .

Usage

To execute JBake via Docker run this from project directory:

$ docker run --rm -u jbake -v "$PWD":/mnt/site jbake/jbake:latest

This command will execute using the jbake user to avoid running as root and will mount the current working directory as /mnt/site in the Docker container where JBake is expecting your project files to be. By default the Docker image will execute a bake -b only.

If you want to bake and serve your project using the Docker image then you’ll need to override the default command:

$ docker run --rm -u jbake -v "$PWD":/mnt/site -p 8820:8820 jbake/jbake:latest -b -s

This command will also expose port 8820 from the container, you’ll also need to set the following option in your jbake.properties file:

server.hostname=0.0.0.0

Note	Docker image timezone is UTC. This may affect the date and time expected in output content. To set different timezone, add TZ environment variable and set value to required timezone. Example - docker run --rm -u jbake -e TZ=America/New_York -v "$PWD":/mnt/site jbake/jbake:latest

Build System

The project uses Gradle 4.9+ as the build system. To build the JBake distribution ZIP file execute the following command from the root of the repo:

$ ./gradlew distZip

This will build a ZIP file in the /build/distributions folder.

For more information see Test, Build and Deploy

Coding conventions

The project uses a basic set of checkstyle rules to keep the Code in shape.

We configured the gradle checkstyle Plugin to run with the check task. It does not break the build if convention violations are found. But prints a warning and generates a report.

For more information see Test, Build and Deploy

Setup Intellij

• Install checkstyle-idea plugin

  Settings → Plugins → CheckStyle-IDEA

• Configure

  Settings → Other Settings → Checksytle

  Add a new Configuration File. Enter a Description like "jbake Checkstyle" and choose "Use a local Checkstyle file". The checkstyle File is located at the project root path config/checkstyle/checkstyle.xml

• Add to Editor Code Style Scheme

  Settings → Editor → Code Style

  Click the gear Symbol besides the "Scheme:" drop-down.

  Import Scheme → Checkstyle Configuration

  Pick the project checkstyle file config/checkstyle/checkstyle.xml

Tools & Libraries Used

• Apache Commons IO, Configuration, Lang & Logging

• Args4j

• AsciidoctorJ

• Freemarker

• Gradle

• Groovy

• JUnit

• Flexmark

• Jetty Server

• OrientDB

Copyright & License

Licensed under the MIT License, see the LICENSE file for details.

jbake's Issues

Transfer repo over to organisation

So repo would be http://github.com/jbake-org/jbake

why i met such error?

hi.
in the beginning,i use "jbake" to publish 2 posts successfully,but when i try to use "jbake" to publish more posts,i met the error below:

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how to fix it? my site is http://as3.brite.biz:5500/
as3:~/JBake# ls

Add support for incremental rendering

Add support for incremental rendering, only render what has changed.

Yeoman generator

We need to create a good user friendly Yeoman generator for JBake.

https://github.com/robwierzbowski/generator-jekyllrb

Add support for AsciiDoc format

Add support for AsciiDoc format. Using Alex's great project: https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-java-integration

Update documentation to reflect changes

Improve tag page rendering system

Improve tag page rendering system.

Allow a default status to be set/configured

Download link on Getting Started page is dead

I went to the Getting Started page. The download link in step 2 points to http://jbake.org/download.html but requesting that URL returns a 404 Not Found error.

Update README.md to cover just development & link to contributing guide

Link to main docs on jbake.org

Speed up AsciiDoc rendering by reusing Asciidoctor object

Add support for YAML formatted config file

So more complex data structures can be used.

No specific use cases as yet, will be done once requirement exists.

Research:

http://www.yaml.org/
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/450399/which-java-yaml-library-should-i-use
https://code.google.com/p/snakeyaml/

Add JBoss Forge support via a plugin

Add JBoss Forge support via a plugin

Add Wordpress import script

Add Wordpress import script.

Depreciate custom.properties file support

In next minor release add warning that support for the file is being depreciated and will be removed in next major release, suggest they rename it to jbake.properties instead.

No latest version to maven central

Hello Jonathan,
great work you did here. I really like JBake. Would it be possible for you to upload the jbake artifacts to maven central. currently only version 2.1.1 is available.

cheers,
Vadim

Add logging framework support

Add logging framework support using either Log4j or SLF4J, consider adding logging options to configuration too.

Content header is being picked up from middle of content file but it shouldn't be

Discovered while converting docs to AsciiDoc format and including JBake meta data in half way down file as example.

Create a JBake maven plugin

This maven plugin should take source for site in a convenient lcoation (say something like src/site/jbake) and set output at a convenient location (target/jbake).

The interest ? Using maven wagons to upload JBake generated site to any convenient host.

The impact on JBake ? Provide a maven artifact in maven central (usually uploading to maven central requires collaboration with the folks at Sonatype - see that document for the details)

Improve execution scripts ready for release

Improve execution scripts for Linux, OS X & Windows ready for release.

Adopt Semantic Versioning strategy

http://semver.org/

Starting with v2.2.0

Improve error messages when required folders are missing

Improve error messages when required folders are missing, for example:

Error: Required folder cannot be found! Config key is template.folder
java.lang.Exception: Error: Required folder cannot be found! Config key is template.folder

Add photo album support

Add photo album support so I can eventually replace the need to run Gallery.

Generate automatic sitemap.xml

Controllable via configuration option?

Add support for more template engines

Add support for more template engines such as Velocity, Mustache.java, StringTemplate etc.

Standardised data model interferes with rendering index, archive & feed

Published posts get overridden with all posts now because of the standardised model.

Add command line option to create required structure

Should also include a default template that can be used as a starting point using either Bootstrap or Foundation.

Add version output when JBake is ran

Date for AsciiDoc formatted files is last modified date instead of revision date

Add post baking stats

Add post baking stats such as "123 posts & 10 pages baked".

Look for jbake.properties file as well

Instead of just custom.properties

Standardise the data model available to the templates

By including more data such as all config options and all posts & pages.

Use multiple threads to speed up baking

Use multiple threads to speed up baking

Look at using Scanner to parse content files instead

Markdown posts don't have their file extension correctly set

The post.uri value still has file.md in it.

Add support for .adoc extension

Add support for serving up baked site locally

Add support for serving up baked site locally using Jetty.

Baking is considerably slower on large site (~250 pages across many sub-folders)

Add CDI support into the project

Add CDI support into the project, maybe using Weld?

Top-bar links follow posts, and break as a result

Hi!

I just started playing with JBake, it looks really nice and super easy to set up, which is a big plus! :)

The problem I'm seeing is on the default site generated with jbake -i -- if I click on one of the post links, e.g. fourth post, then I get brought to that page fine (http://localhost:8820/blog/2013/fourth-post.html), but now all of the links on the top bar are broken.

For example, the About page points to http://localhost:8820/blog/2013/about.html (folder for posts) rather than http://localhost:8820/about.html (base folder for site).

This is in the latest released version, 2.2.0.

Release JBake to Maven central repo

To allow the plugin (#31) to be released.

Create unit tests

Create unit tests using JUnit or TestNG.

Add automatic publishing based on date

Similar to Wordpress publish in advance.

Output folder "baked" gets created even if the source folder structure is not valid

Output folder "baked" gets created even if the source folder structure is not valid

Improve drafts & status system

Improve drafts & status system.

Add baked timestamp to data available in templates

Make source folder arg optional

Default to the current working directory by default.

Allow date format used to be customised via configuration

Add support for plugins

Add support for plugins for getting external content such as Twitter/Facebook and outputting it via the rendering pipeline.

Look at standardising on HTTP server used in core & Maven plugin

Is it worth standardising? What's the benefits?

Options:
http://winstone.sourceforge.net/
http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/
http://undertow.io/