LuaWebGen is a static website generator.
Webpages are generated using HTML and Markdown templates with embedded Lua code. CSS files can also include code.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Use any standard Lua library normally in your code, like io and os.
- Markdown parser (for GitHub Flavored Markdown). Markdown can contain tables and more.
- Pages are generated in two steps: first the content of the page (from the file in the content folder), then the layout (which will insert the result from the first step into itself). It’s possible for a page to say no layout should be used, in which case there’s only one step. Templates that aren’t pages (CSS and XML files) use no layout and thus also only have one step.
Website: github.com/ReFreezed/LuaWebGen
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Developer: Marcus Thunström
License: MIT License
LuaWebGen is written in Lua. Learn Lua with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| Lua Static Site Generators | |
|---|---|
| Satelito | Uses Markdown (and HTML) for basic content and Lua files for metadata |
| luasmith | Small, simple, and flexible static site generator similar in design to Metalsmith |
| Sitegen | Assembles static pages through a pipeline consisting of templates and pages |
| LuaWebGen | Somewhat inspired by Hugo |
| Luapress | Simple and fast static site/blog generator with Markdown extensions |
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