This is a simple ~400 line program that assembles different html snippets together to build a blog.

The program expects an in folder and will create an out folder where the final blog will be placed. In general, every file and folder in in will be copied to the out folder. However, there are some special folders and files inside in that the program will look for.

In the root folder you can create files that you want to be at the root of your website, like a homepage for example. These files will be processed with the templates described below.

In the templates folder you will find a head.html, header.html and footer.html file. When running the program all files in the root folder will be copied into the out folder and head, header and footer will be applied to all of them.

In vars.txt you can define variables like this (one variable on every new line):

VARIAVLE_NAME=value

Now anytime you put %VARIABLE_NAME% in any html file it will be replaced with the value defined.

To make a new list, make a new folder in the list folder and create a list.html file. At the beginning of the list.html file you must define two variables: LIST_VAR and LIST_TITLE:

LIST_VAR=MARVEL_MOVIE
LIST_TITLE=My top 5 Marvel Movies

With LIST_VAR the whole list will be copy-pasted when calling %MARVEL_MOVIES%. You must give a LIST_TITLE variable definition.

The actual content of the file is separated by +++ and acts as a template for each list item. With %ITEM_CONTENT% you can say where the content of each item will be placed.

Every html file that sits in the list folder will be included as an item in the final list. On the top of every item file you must define:

ITEM_TITLE=The Avengers
ITEM_DATE=01/01/2000

The ITEM_TITLE will be the item title. The ITEM_DATE is optional and when present, items with a more recent date will appear first in the list.

You can also define additional variables that can be called from list.html.

Besides the list.html file you can create a links.html file. This template file will be used to compile a list of links for every item in a list. You will have to define a LINKS_VAR variable that works like the LIST_VAR variable. To get the link of an item use %ITEM_LINK%.

The in folder already contains an example blog with a list of the top 5 Marvel movies. If you don't like Marvel movies check out neinkob.net.

I don't do any formatting for the generated html code. If you want to have more readable html code, i would recommomend running a formatter like superHTML after each build.

You need access to the Jai beta in order to use this program since it has to be compiled first.

Run jai blog_builder.jai and then run ./blog_builder.