Nib
===
Nib is a static site generator, written in Python, geared toward creating a
simple site or blog. Nib uses a pluggable content pipeline that differentiates
between "resources" like CSS or Javascript, and "documents" such as static pages
or blog posts. The two pipelines are similar, are executed in parallel, and
define multiple hooks where plugins can process a subset of entities, and even
remove entities or generate new ones at runtime.
An example site generated from the default wizard and templates is available at
http://nib.noswap.com
[](https://travis-ci.org/jreese/nib)
Requirements
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- Python 2.7 or 3.2+
Installation
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To install the latest official release:
$ pip3 install nib
or to install the version currently checked out from source:
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
$ python3 setup.py install
Getting Started
---------------
Once Nib is installed, you can generate basic configuration and site using the
built-in wizard:
$ mkdir somesite && cd somesite
$ nib wizard
...
Once the wizard is complete, you should have a site configuration file, some
example documents (a page and two blog posts), and a minimal site theme
consisting of resources (favicon, CSS, and robots.txt), and templates:
$ ls
config.nib documents/ resources/ templates/
$ ls documents
about.md links/ posts/
$ ls resources
favicon.ico main.less robots.txt
$ ls templates
feed.xml list.html macros.html page.html post.html posts.html
To build the site:
$ nib
...
Done
The resulting HTML and resources will be in the `site/` directory:
$ ls
config.nib documents/ resources/ site/ templates/
$ ls site
2012/ about.html archive.html favicon.ico feed.xml index.html links/ main.css posts/ robots.txt tags/
To test the resulting site, Nib can run a simple HTTP server, as well as open
the local server in your preferred web browser:
$ nib serve
Serving site on port 8000... press Ctrl-C to terminate.
^C
Done
or:
$ nib serve --port 9000 --browse
Serving site on port 9000... press Ctrl-C to terminate.
Opening http://localhost:9000 in web browser...
^C
Done
License
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Nib is licensed under the MIT license. See the `LICENSE` file for details.
Credits
-------
Nib is developed by [John Reese](http://noswap.com) as a labor of love.
It builds on top of many fine projects from the open source community, such as:
- [Jinja2](http://jinja.pocoo.org)
- [Markdown](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Markdown/)
- [PyYAML](http://pyyaml.org)
- [sh](https://github.com/amoffat/sh)
Inspiration for Nib its design is thanks to
[Oben Sonne](http://obensonne.bitbucket.org/) and his project
[Poole](http://bitbucket.org/obensonne/poole).
