RISS is an acronym for “README In Static Site”.
It is a script which lets you to insert your GitHub README in your static site and apply transformations. The transformations are driven by HTML comments, so that you can have different results when comments are ignored (e.g. in your GitHub README) and after executing the script on your Markdown file.
This script is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Offers more control on the theme and layout.
- Insert scripts that GitHub do not allow (such as asciinema scripts). You can’t embed the asciinema player on GitHub for security reasons.
- Offers the option of having your project’s home page independent of your hosting platform.
Website: github.com/cljoly/readme-in-static-site
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Developer: Clément Joly
License: Apache License 2.0
RISS is written in Awk. Learn Awk with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| Awk Static Site Generators | |
|---|---|
| UNK | Tiny static site generator that includes a markup language; Fits under 1,000 bytes |
| zodiac | Static website generator powered by sh and awk |
| RISS | Insert GitHub README in a static site and apply transformations |
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