Marmite – static site generator for blogs

Marmite [Markdown makes sites] is a very simple static site generator.

It does “one” simple thing only:

• Reads all .md files on the input directory.
• Using CommonMark parse it to HTML content.
• Extract optional metadata from frontmatter or filename.
• Generated html file for each page.
• Outputs the rendered static site to the output folder.

It also handles generating or copying static/ and media/ to the output dir.

Key Features

• Everything embedded in a single binary.
• Zero-Config to get started.
  • optionally fully configurable
• Common-mark + Github Flavoured Markdown + Extensions.
• Raw HTML allowed.
• Emojis :smile:, spoiler ||secret||.
• Wikilinks [[name|url]] and Obsidian links [[page]].
• Backlinks.
• Tags.
• Multi authors.
  • Author profile page
• Multi streams.
  • Separate content in different listing
• Pagination.
• Static Search Index.
• RSS Feeds.
  • Multiple feeds (index, tags, authors, streams)
• Built-in HTTP server.
• Auto rebuild when content changes.
• Built-in theme
  • Light and Dark modes.
  • Multiple colorschemes
  • Fully responsive
  • Spotlight Search.
  • Easy to replace the index page and add custom CSS/JS
  • Easy to customize the templates
  • Math and Mermaid diagrams.
  • Syntax Highlight.
  • Commenting system integration.
  • Banner images and og: tags.
• CLI to start a new theme from scratch

Website: github.com/rochacbruno/marmite
Support:
Developer: Bruno Cesar Rocha
License: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0

Marmite is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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