minimalist static blog site

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  Minimalistic Blog Static Site Generator

Inspiration

The video game Civilization had a quote from Antoine de Saint Exupéry - "It seems that perfection is attained, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to take away." I wanted to make a minimalistic static blog engine.

What it does

It takes a directory of txt files and loads them into a database. Next it generates html from the database. Alternatives are Jekyll or Hugo.

How we built it

It is built using pug, SQL, JavaScript, node js, html, and CSS.

Deps:

    "better-sqlite3": "^11.3.0",
    "fs-extra": "^11.2.0",
    "pug": "^3.0.3"

Challenges we ran into

Keeping to the minimalist theme I set for myself meant keeping feature creep from diluting the vision.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

I completed a blog engine, and made a video.

What we learned

Less is more. (doesn't use less or sass just css though :) "Keeping the main thing the main thing" is a business trope for a reason.

What's next for minimalist static blog site

Perhaps some admin scripts.

Built With

• css3
• html5
• javascript
• pug
• sql
• sqlite