BASSG

BASSG (Basic Agile Static Site Generator) is a simple and easy to use static site generator for quickly creating static websites using Jinja2 templating and Markdown.

Features:

• Jinja2 templating
• Markdown
• Custom assets & site folder structure
• Easy to use conventions for creating pages, templates, and markdown

Installing

$ pip install bassg

I would recommend installing BASSG in a virtual environment. This allows you to access BASSG using the "bassg" entry point:

$ bassg --help

Otherwise, BASSG can be accessed with python directly:

$ python -m bassg --help

Usage

If you need help with a command, run:

$ bassg <command> --help

to see the help menu for that command.

Create the project directory:

$ bassg create <project_name>

This will create the folder structure in the current directory (root):

📦project_name
 ┣ 📂build
 ┃ ┣ 📂assets
 ┃ ┣ 📂config
 ┃ ┣ 📂markdown
 ┃ ┗ 📂templates
 ┗ 📂site

Generating the site:

$ bassg generate <project_name>

This will compile all of the html files in the build/ directory using Jinja2 and Markdown

Creating and using templates:

Place Jinja2 templates in the templates/ directory. Any html files in the base build/ directory that include these templates will be rendered accordingly.

Using markdown:

If you want to use markdown in your site, create a file_name.md file with the same file name as the html page you want to insert it in. Place this file in the build/markdown/ directory. The parsed markdown data will be passed into the Jinja2 parser as 'markdown'. If you wish to have multiple markdown files per page, you can use the naming convention:

file_name0.md
file_name1.md
...

These can then be accesed in the file_name.html file as markdown[0], markdown[1], etc.

Per-page config (json) files:

You can create (optional) configuration files for individual pages with a similar syntax to creating markdown files. Any file_name.json files with the same file name as an html page in the build/ directory will be passed in through the Jinja2 parser.

For example:
file_name.json:

{
    "title": "Documentation",
    "date": "08/22/2021",
    "language": "English",
    "folder_struct": "docs"
}

All of these variables will be passed into the Jinja2 parser for file_name.html.

The special attribute folder_struct tells BASSG which folder to place the page in when it generates the site. In this example, the generated file_name.html file will be placed in the site/docs/ folder. This can be used to easily organize the pages of your site.