HTML Static Page Generator

A simple static page generator that allows you to declare variables directly in your HTML page.

INSTRUCTIONS:

BUILDING:

In order to build this project, you'll need to clone the directory:

git clone -j8 https://github.com/samuelnalini/static-page-gen.git

Then, go into the project folder and create a build directory

cd static-page-gen && mkdir build && cd build

Once you're in the build directory, run

make

GENERATING YOUR FILE:

The executable is found in static-page/build/gen

Run:

./gen <FILEPATH>

EXAMPLE:

./gen ~/Projects/static-page/page/template.html

This will generate static.html in the same directory as the gen executable (may change to allow specification later)

CREATING AND UTILIZING VARIABLES:

Variables can be declared inside or outside of comments, I recommend the following to avoid issues:

<!<--
    @{variable_name} = "hello, world!"
    @{variable_2} = "here I am!"
-->

You can then reference variables in your code by wrapping them around curly brackets

{variable_name} {variable_2}

will turn into

hello, world! here I am!

You can see an example inside of page/template.html

SOME CONSIDERATIONS

This is one of my first C++ projects and is definitely not intended to be used in large projects. It was mostly just a learning experience for me. Furthermore, this was not built with security in mind, it is rather a learning project. This is only built for linux but can work on other OSes as well with minor tweaks, if not just a rebuild.

I plan on moving this to https://github.com/samuelnalini/project-frame in the future