A Declarative static site generator using Deno and TypeScript

Degen

Version: Beta 1

Versions increment in whole numbers.
Degen will exit Beta probably around the time I finish my website.

Brief

Degen is a simple static site generator written in TypeScript and uses Deno as the runtime environment. Degen tries to find a good balance between KISS and being flexible/configurable.
The code is open source in case anyone might find it useful.

Motivation

I wanted to use a static site generator for creating my portfolio website. After looking and the available SSGs online, I decided to make my own. I created Degen out of pure curiosity, interest, and for the experience. I also wanted to build a project using the new and fresh Deno runtime.
Any changes to Degen while building my portfolio will be reflected here.

If you happen to find this, I recommend the using other static site generators:

Eleventy
Hugo
Gatsby
Jekyll
and other SSGs I have failed to mention

Using Degen

Dependencies

Degen has two dependencies:

Deno + standard library
Markdown-it (Likely to change if I find a Native Deno Module)

Execution

Configure the degen.toml file to fit the structure of your project
- e.g. change source_directory and export_path
Run Degen
- deno run --allow-read --allow-write --allow-env .\degen.ts

Currently, we need the flags --allow-read --allow-write --allow-env.

--allow-read & --allow-write: Read markdown, template, and other files and write out rendered HTML files.
--allow-env: This is used by Deno’s require() (Node-compatibility interface), which is needed to use markdown-it Node module.

Current Issues

Need to clean up Error creation
Update my tests
Add more tests
Resolve all TODOs
And many more issues on my Trello board

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Author: Jakob-Strobl

Source Code: https://github.com/Jakob-Strobl/Degen

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