Jikji

Python Static website generator fits well with Modern web

What's different

In common static website generator like Jekyll, it transforms plain text like mardown to html.

Jekyll is blog-friendly generator, but Jikji is general-purpose static website generator that communicates with DBMS or RESTFul API Server.

Install

$ pip install jikji

Usage

$ jikji <my_site> generate

Open server for testing

You don't have to generate all the time after modifying template.
Jikji has useful function to develop in realtime

Run jikji as listening mode

$ jikji <my_site> listen
$ jikji <my_site> listen --port PORT --host HOST

Then you can see rendered website in your browser (default: http://localhost:7000)

When you reload the website running with Flask, jikji will do re-rendering the template.

What's good

• Fast. Jikji use multiprocessing on generation
• Expandability. You can build from micro web to enterprise-class website.
• Efficiency. You can write code fastly with familiar libraries/design pattern.

Template engine

Jikji uses Jinja2 template engine which is used in Flask.
You can see jinja template documentation on here.

View-Page Concept

Jikji has a concept View, which is similar to Controller on common backend framework One View has one 'URL rule', one 'View Function', and multiple 'Pages'.

Usually, the controller has the role of taking the data from the model with the PARAMETERS in URL and returning the HTML with the View.

In static web, PARAMETERS are provided in advance. There are many tuple set of parameters in ONE VIEW.

Jikji calls the tuple Page

For example, 'Article View' has url rule /posts/$1/$2 The sample PAGEs for 'Article View' will have the following.

/posts/dev/best-sublime-text-3-themes-of-2016
/posts/dev/the-best-news-from-angulars-ng-conf