I love the code [1]. Mine [2] is a bit over engineered because I wanted hot-reloading (without JS), and it was a delightful yak shave.

But the basic idea is the same --- heredocs for templating, using a plaintext -> html compiler (pandoc in my case), an intermediate CSV for index generation. Also some handy sed-fu [3] to lift out front matter. Classic :)

Very nice!

[1] https://github.com/karlb/karl.berlin/blob/master/blog.sh

[2] https://github.com/adityaathalye/shite

[3] I'm doing this: https://github.com/adityaathalye/shite/blob/master/bin/templ...

  case ${file_type} in
        org )
            # Multiline processing of org-style header/preamble syntax, boxed
            # between begin/end markers we have defined. We use org-mode's own
            # comment line syntax to write the begin/end markers.
            # cf. https://orgmode.org/guide/Comment-Lines.html
            sed -n -E \
                -e '/^\#\s+shite_meta/I,/^\#\s+shite_meta/I{/\#\s+shite_meta.*/Id; s/^\#\+(\w+)\:\s+(.*)/\L\1\E,\2/Ip}'
            ;;
        md )
            # Multiline processing of Jekyll-style YAML front matter, boxed
            # between `---` separators.
            sed -n -E \
                -e '/^\-{3,}/,/^\-{3,}/{/^\-{3,}.*/d; s/^(\w+)\:\s+(.*)/\L\1\E,\2/Ip}'
            ;;
        html )
            # Use HTML meta tags and parse them, according to this convention:
            #    <meta name="KEY" content="VALUE">
            # cf. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/HTML/Introduction_to_HTML/The_head_metadata_in_HTML
            sed -n -E \
                -e 's;^\s?<meta\s+name="?(\w+)"?\s+content="(.*)">;\L\1\E,\2;Ip'
            ;;
      esac