• Add unit testing, particularly for the markdown component of the application

• GET RID OF ALL THE MEMORY LEAKS

• More robust and modern markdown parsing that implements best practices

• Introduce JSON as the standard config format for both the config files as well as the meta-data

• Implement first-class support for dates, and sorting the listing

• better templating, with --IF {cond}-- and --ELSE-- where cond can be a flag that the user set in his config. The idea is that a template author may use this to write robust templates which work for a wide variety of formats. I really want this to be a highly configuration heavy experience.

• --IF {some_flag}--, --ELIF {some_flag}--, --ELSE--,

• --CONF {some_opt}-- pick and replace a config option at place

• --LISTING :asc :tag--

An utterly simple and fast Static Site Generator built using C

• [✅] Simple and fast
• [✅] HTML-first approach
• [✅] Crossplatform (Tested on Windows 11 v21H2 and Debian GNU/Linux 11 x86_64)
• [❌] JS-first SPA experience
• [❌] Frameworks and external build tools
• [❌] Plugins and lifecycle hooks

To get kevlar, you can either get a binary from releases or build from scratch; instructions for which are given here.

To get start with kevlar, you need GCC and make which are the primary build tools used by kevlar

build

git clone https://github.com/aadv1k/kevlar
cd kevlar && make all
./bin/kevlar help

You may need something like mingw32-make, and gcc for windows for this to work

git clone https://github.com/aadv1k/kevlar
cd kevlar && make kevlar_win32
"bin/kevlar.exe" help

Kevlar has it's own markdown loader if you would like to build it as it's own executable you can run make md2html You can build the loader kevlar uses to parse .md files as their own executables by running.

You will get the respective CLI

$ kevlar
kevlar <cmd> <opt>
  help       -- print this help message
  new        -- create a new site skeleton
  new-post   -- create a new post with defaults
  build      -- build if in a kevlar project

Sets up a basic skeleton for a site and a basic config.ini

theme=listing-kevlar-theme

• theme=: looks for the given theme within the ./templates/ dir.

Generates a .md file in the current folder with the following archetype

Title=This is a title
Date=2023-01-24 17:44:10
Order=1

• Title: the name of the link that will show up with --TITLE--
• Date: current date, put AS-IS with --DATE--
• Order: the order in which the post will show up in --LISTING--

the only required config is the theme option in the config.ini files.

Defines the layout of a post

Defines to how a singular list item within --LISTING-- will look like