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Quickstart

Quickstart

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Installation options

Via pip from PyPI

Just run:

pip install Peji

Via setup.py

You should already have the Python setuptools package installed.

Clone repo:

git clone https://gitea.gch.icu/ge/peji.git
cd peji/

Run:

pip install .

pip automatically runs setup.py and install all dependencies.

Command line interface

Pēji provides small command line interface.

App supports only two commands:

create SITE
Create new site in directory SITE. For example:
peji create mysite

In mysite/ dir will be created standard file structure. See Site structure below.

build
Render HTML pages and place it with other static content into mysite/build/ directory.

You can choose specific directory instead of build/ if pass -d (or --dir) option. For example, build site into my_static_site/:

peji build -d my_static_site/

Site structure

After creating site you have this site structure:

mysite/
├── config.yaml
├── layouts
│   ├── base.j2
│   └── index.j2
├── pages
└── themes
    └── default
        ├── css
        │   └── main.css
        ├── images
        └── js

There is:

config.yaml
Site configuration file. See more here.
layouts/
This folder contains Jinja2 templates. By default base.j2 and index.j2 is used.
pages/
Place your markdown files here.
themes/
Contains CSS, JS and images that need for page design.
build/
Generated HTML files. Creates after running peji build.

Pages

Page metadata.

Like many other static site generators and flat-file CMS, in Pēji metadata is required for Markdown files.

Metadata must be appended to the beginning of the markdown file and is surrounded by a triple minus sign at the beginning and end. Data are presented in YAML format. Example:

---
title: My page title
layout: index.j2
theme: my_theme
---

# Your markdown text here

At the moment the application only supports these three properties. Consider each:

title
Page title. Is appended in HTML <title></title>.

Default: No default value. This property is required.

layout
You can set custom template for specific page. Template file must be placed into layouts/ directory.

Default: index.j2

theme
Custom theme (CSS) for page. By default themes are placed into themes/<theme_name>/. In this property you only need to specify the <theme_name>, you don't need to specify the path.

Default: default

Templates (Layouts)

Page variables

Page variables are passed to Jinja2 templates. Below is a description of each variable. A colon separated from the name of a variable indicates its type (see Python Data Types{target="_blank"}, [Docs]{target="_blank"}).

theme: str
Page theme. Can be specified in page metadata. Otherwise, the value from config.yaml is used.
title: str
Required property, set in the page metadata.
site_title: str
Site title. Optional, set in config.yaml (named title). See Configuration.
description: str
See. Configuration.
menu: dict
Contains a dictionary where the key is the title of the link and the key value is the URL of the link. The data is filled from config.yaml's menu.
content: str
This is a string containing HTML-converted Markdown text. In the template, this variable must be used with safe to avoid escaping HTML tags. Usage example:

{{ content | safe }}