static-html-generator

This is a static site boilerplate using gulp and handlebars to generate static HTML files. This is using gulp for build and dev automation, and handlbar for the template engine. You can just copy your HTML template into the www folder and generate ready to deploy a static website, with minify and combine JS/CSS.

Instructions

• git clone https://github.com/sanjaynishad/static-html-generator.git or download
• npm install to install the dependencies
• npm start to start developing on the local machine
• npm run build to build the project for production
• npm run deploy to deploy the production build (dist folder)

Configs

• partials - partial folder to be used for gulp-compile-handlebars
• hbs - context data as per pages, keys must match the <name>.hbs file's name
• ftp - FTP login info to deploy the static site

./www/config.json

{
    "partials": "./partials",
    "hbs": {
        "index": {
            "title": "This is home page.",
            "description": "This is another data to be passed in handlebar template and added to meta tag, check head.hbs"
        },
        "page1": {},
        "page2": {}
    },
    "ftp": {
        "host": "example.com",
        "user": "user",
        "password": "password",
        "folder": "/public_html"
    }
}

Not fulfilling all requirements? Need to add more functionality?

• For the templating syntax Handlebars
• For the Gulp

Contribution

You are most welcome to add more functionality here. Thanks.