syncroplicity

Simple static site powering Syncroplicity.com.

Static HTML is produced using a short custom website generator powered by Flask, Jinja2, & wget.

All metadata is stored in content.json.
Templates are in: templates/
Static files are in: static/

Install

brew install wget python3  # only needed on mac
pip3 install flask

Common Tasks

Adding a new Page

1. edit 'content.json' to add metadata for new page, including url
2. add new template html file to templates/
3. add link to new page in navbar: see base.html <nav> section
4. rebuild site
5. new page should appear in navbar

Editing existing Post/Page

1. edit 'content.json' to reflect new metadata
2. edit any relevant templates
3. rebuild site
4. new page should appear in navbar

Editing header/footer/other code

1. edit base.html, static/main.css, content.json and any other relevant templates
2. rebuild site
3. new changes should appear on site

Command Line Interface

Run the Server

./server
# or with auto-reloading
env FLASK_DEBUG=True ./server

Get a list of the page & post urls without running the server

./server --pages
./server --posts

Build the Static Site

./build

Static HTMML output will be produced in output/, and can be rsyned to a server using build script or manually with:

rsync -r output/ chronosite:/opt/drchromopage/chronosite/output

Stack

The static site generator is build using Flask + Jinja2 and wget to save the output as static html.