genstatic | Static site generator using Django templates

genstatic is a Python library typically used in Template Engine, Wagtail applications. genstatic has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has build file available and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

genstatic - Generate and maintain static HTML files with Django templates. Genstatic is a tool for generating and managing sets of static HTML (or other text format) files using the Django template system. It exists to save web designers time and sanity. It's useful when you need to create a set of HTML files sharing structural similarities, in a low-maintenance way. You can do things like change the doctype of 100 different HTML files, or change the year of the copyright date in all their footers, by making a minor change to one file. It's also proven EXTREMELY useful when, as a web designer, you are serving a client who hands you a very messy folder of static files for their existing website. You can use genstatic to bring order to that chaos, and modify them with much less time and duplication of your effort. Genstatic is not limited to HTML files. You can use it to generate CSS, Javascript, plain text - essentially whatever textual format you need. Genstatic is based on Django templates, and lets you leverage some of its powerful features: template inheritance, template variables, and a rich built-in function library (Django's "tags" and "filters"). Learn more at . Usage: genstatic.py [options] srcdir destdir. For a full list of options, execute "genstatic.py -h". srcdir and destdir are directories. srcdir contains files - HTML, CSS, Javascript, images, etc. Some or all of these files may be Django templates. srcdir normally also contains a magic subdirectory, named "_" (underscore), that can contain inheritable base templates. These are all files you create. Files in srcdir, other than those under "_", are rendered as Django templates, and written into destdir (which is created, and by default, not overwritten. Override that with the --clobber option.). Not all files will be rendered this way: only those with certain filename extensions. (By default, it's "htm", "html", "txt" and "css".) Files that don't match this are just copied straight through. You can tell genstatic to match a different set of extensions with the -x option. Often, you will like to set variable names and values that are available to the templates. Create a python file that defines these variables - for example, "myparams.py". Then pass this file name with the -v option to genstatic. (You must use Python syntax in this file. Not a "Pythonista"? Don't worry; if you're the type of person who wants to use genstatic, you will probably find the variable syntax very easy to pick up. See Appendix A for a primer.).