My Blog Engine Is the Erlang Build Tool

[lihaoyi]

My own blog http://www.lihaoyi.com/ is also built using the Mill build tool. Incremental builds, parallelosm, watch-and-rebuild, etc are all things that static sites need as much as builds tools do; except you're compiling markdown to html instead of java to classfilrz or whatever. Cool to see others taking the same approach

[paradox460]

It's very impressive how expressive and flexible the compilers in the BEAMverse are. Elixir extends this rather far, and there are whole utilities such as Surface[1] that are built atop and make heavy use of custom compilers

For more germane blogging and ssg in elixir/beam, I use and recommend the excellent tableau generator[2], by Mitch Hanberg. I use it to power my own personal site[3], and publish the source[4] for anyone who is interested.

[1] https://surface-ui.org/

[2] https://github.com/elixir-tools/tableau

[3] https://pdx.su

[4] https://github.com/paradox460/pdx.su

[lkuty]

Thanks for sharing. I think I will use it for my blog. I wanted to create a programming blog for a long time and focused on Hugo to build the static site but I could not decide myself since the doc is not good enough IMO and thus I didn't feel comfortable enough to start it. And I want something minimal. Now using Elixir seems like a good idea since it has already been my main programming language for the last few years.

[swiftcoder]

That's a pretty cool re-use of existing tooling. Always interested to see the custom static site generators folks have come up with.

[xrd]

Well, you asked:

https://extrastatic.dev/svekyll/svekyll-cli

I wrote a post about embeddings that uses some fun Svelte animations. You can scroll to the bottom and click view source. That'll show you the markdown for some very complex visualisation in Svelte. Then, click on the download button and download that post entirely, which can be built into a single HTML file with two commands: "npm i && npm build".

https://webiphany.com/2024-04-29-distance-sean-shawn

[daniel_j]

I started mine more specifically for pagination of my blog, but it turned into good practice for character and file manipulation. I've been thinking of giving it a go to create a markdown interpreter. Right now the source files are just html

https://github.com/daniel-Jones/websitegenerator

[SoftTalker]

Is this basically a different twist on building a static site via a Makefile? I glanced through it and that was my impression but maybe it's more? Not trying to diminish this, just wondering if it's a fair comparison.

[hcarvalhoalves]

Here’s one using Emacs’ Org mode:

https://github.com/hcarvalhoalves/org-mode-site-template

[hiccuphippo]

There's a similar tool for building static sites using the zig build system: https://github.com/kristoff-it/zine

They made their own template language on top of html. An interesting outcome of this is that any error in the html, like a missing closing tag, becomes a build time error.