Grimoire is a lightweight, Groovy-first static site generator distributed as a Gradle plugin.
It transforms Markdown and HTML content into static websites using Groovy’s SimpleTemplateEngine for pages, layouts and reusable partials.
Pages can include native Groovy front matter, while structured data and automatically generated navigation trees are available to templates. Grimoire also handles assets, compiles Sass and SCSS stylesheets, and provides a local development server for previewing the generated site.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Generates static websites from Markdown and HTML pages.
- Uses Groovy’s SimpleTemplateEngine for templating.
- Supports reusable layouts and partials.
- Accepts native Groovy front matter for page metadata.
- Builds a navigation tree from the pages directory.
- Loads structured data from JSON, YAML and Groovy files.
- Compiles Sass and SCSS assets to CSS.
- Preserves binary and non-templated assets unchanged.
- Provides configurable source and output directories.
- Includes a local development server.
- Supports configurable base URLs for sites hosted under subpaths.
- Requires JDK 17 or later.
Website: github.com/xgeoff/grimoire
Support:
Developer: Geoff P
License: MIT License
Grimoire is written in Groovy. Learn Groovy with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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