m4ke – minimalist static site generator

m4ke is a minimalist static site generator built around standard Unix tools.

It uses the m4 macro processor to transform posts and pages, while make handles the build process. Content can contain HTML, CSS and JavaScript, with reusable templates providing headers and footers.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

• Generates static websites using m4 and make.
• Supports dated blog posts and standalone pages.
• Automatically creates an index of published posts.
• Generates RSS feeds and XML sitemaps.
• Uses reusable header and footer templates.
• Copies stylesheets and other static assets into the output directory.
• Supports custom base URLs at build time.
• Includes a Docker-based build option.
• Requires no specialised static site generator framework.

Website: github.com/gaurangsinha/m4ke
Support:
Developer: Gaurang Sinha
License: MIT License

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