Geno

Geno is a small and opinionated static site generator for easily generating a simple site for your NPM projects based on the project's package.json file.

Why?

Because hand crafting a new site for each project can be quite tedious.

Installation

npm install -g geno

Usage

Run the following in the root directory of your project:

geno

BOOM! Your project site has been generated.

geno.json

Adding a geno.json in your project's root directory will enable you to add some additional information to your site:

{
  "title": "...",
  "introduction": "<p>...</p>",
  "installation": "<p>...</p>",
  "usage": "<p>...</p>",
  "output": "path/to/ouput",
  "template": "path/to/custom/template",
  "stylesheet": "path/to/custom/stylesheet",
  "javascript": "path/to/javascript/file",
  "docco": "path/to/docs",
  "endorse": true
}

• title is used for naming your module. For example, if you have a module registered as node-my-module but you want to call it My Module you can add your own value and easily change that. It'll otherwise default to the name in specified in the package.json file.
• introduction is a longer description field that can be used in favor of the description in the package.json file.
• installation is used for adding some additional installation instructions.
• usage is for adding notes about the basic usage.
• output is where the site will be generated. The default directory is site.
• template is used for using your own custom template file.
• stylesheet is used for using your own custom stylesheet file.
• javascript is for adding a JavaScript file to your site.
• docco is for simply linking to your Docco-generated documentation.
• endorse adds a link to this repository in site's footer. It's turned off by default.

Custom templates

Nunjucks is used as the default templating engine.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2013 Ellen Gummesson

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.