Tiny – lightweight static site generator

Tiny is a lightweight static site generator contained in a single POSIX shell script.

It divides Markdown content into named sections and inserts the processed content into an HTML template.

Sections can be rendered as HTML, plain text, introductory text or raw Markdown. Tiny requires cmark but avoids frameworks, package managers and complex build chains.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

• Generates static websites from Markdown content and HTML templates.
• Implemented as a single POSIX shell script.
• Divides content into sections using level-two Markdown headings.
• Automatically creates slugs from section headings.
• Supports rendered HTML, plain text, introductory paragraph and raw Markdown placeholders.
• Accepts custom template, output and content files.
• Supports multiple pages using different template and content pairs.
• Allows an alternative cmark executable to be specified.
• Includes example home page and blog templates.
• Requires no framework or bundler.

Website: github.com/nrempel/tiny
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Developer: Nicholas Rempel
License: MIT License

Tiny is written in Awk. Learn Awk with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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