rib/README.md

rib

Rib is a static site generator written in Haskell using sensible technologies like Shake, Lucid and Clay. It is still a work in progress but will soon be ready for general use.

Example

See ./example (author's actual website in fact) to see how the Rib library can be used to write your own static site generator in a few lines of code which includes the HTML and CSS of the site:

$ cloc --by-file example/*.hs
[...]
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
File                             blank        comment           code
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
example/Main.hs                     23             16            102
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

With Rib you do not have to deal with the less powerful template engines or write raw HTML/CSS by hand. Do everything in Haskell, and concisely at that!

Local server when editing only content

nix-build
cd example
../result/bin/rib-example serve --watch

Or simply (no cabal file needed),

nix-shell ../default.nix --run "ghcid -c 'ghci -Wall -i../rib/src Main.hs' -T 'Rib.App.dev Main.settings' --reload=Main.hs"

... when hacking on Haskell sources

nix-shell --run "ghcid -c 'cabal new-repl rib-example' -T
'System.Directory.withCurrentDirectory \"example\" \$ Rib.App.dev Main.settings'"

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