Since 2019, I always used a custom static site generator for the website. The previous one was written in Python 2.7 but ever since Python decided to sunset it, I decided to rewrite it using Python 3.7.
Unlike the previous one, it's quite flexible and I thought of giving it some new features that would help me maintain it with ease.
The new features I have added are:
- A neat CLI to build the entire site or certain parts of the website
- Able to switch between different templates
- Archive mode
- Pagination
- Generates RSS Feeds and JSON files
Why rewrite it again?
Over the past few months, I didn't really maintain my blog and when I visited the old codebase, I realized it wasn't flexible and it didn't have many features and it was slow, too.
Recently, I got new ideas of building different sections for the website and thus, is why I had the motivation to rewrite everything and make it modular and flexible enough to build a powerful yet simple custom static site generator.
Have a look
I have decided to open-source my static site generator on my GitHub repository and I'm having plans of writing a new documentation for it, so that if people are interested, they could contribute or use it for their own personal uses.
Conclusion
If you've been following my blog posts, you may know that I have a knack of displaying JavaScript widgets on some of my previous blog posts. Well, I've decided to rewrite all of those widgets, one-by-one, using ReactJS and hopefully, write more tutorials for each of them.
Hope you liked reading this article.