rib

Rib is a static site generator written in Haskell using sensible technologies like Shake, Reflex 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/HTML.hs                     14              7             63
example/CSS.hs                       9              1             32
example/Main.hs                      8              7             16
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SUM:                                31             15            111
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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 -A ghc.rib
cd example
../result/bin/rib-example serve --watch

... when hacking on Haskell sources

nix-shell -A shells.ghc --run "ghcid -c 'cabal new-repl rib-example' -T 'System.Directory.withCurrentDirectory \"example\" \$ Main.dev'"

TODO

• Use my own jsonCache' and drop dependency on Slick

Article Ideas

• Github CI for OSS haskell projects
• Lens and friends
• mtl
• string types
• personal nix cache