Personal Blog Generator

A static website generator made as a part of IOSD winter projects.

Prerequisite

• Python
• HTML/CSS
• Markdown

Steps

• Making a Command Line Tool in Python using predefined libraries to serve as interface with our generator
• Taking a Structured Markdown File and compiling it to a HTML Page using a python script.
• Using the generation code and generating the index , about and a collection of post.
• Adding Custom Themes to the project
• Adding Customization options for Generation , Variables Injection in Templates and many other features (Depending upon your creativity)
• Finishing the Project and Making a Python Package.

Task 1

• Make a command line tool in Python which responds to following commands :
  • create - Initializes a new site at a given path
  • gen - Generates the website to a configured deploy folder
  • serve - Starts a local http server that regenerates based on the requested file
• Tool must have a -h and -v flag for displaying help and version respectively.
• Each Command must have it's own -h flag for displaying a short description and listing all available options.
• Click Python Library can be used for making the tool.