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bob the static site builder

bob is a static site generator built on top of the Deno runtime.

Features

Bob is designed for creating extremely performant websites that require near-instant content updating and network edge personalization. All with best-in-class developer experience.

🚀 Extremely performant websites

  • Minimal CSS footprint (coming soon) Include only the CSS needed for each page to keep CSS size as small as possible.

⚡ Near-instant content updating

  • Incremental builds Build only what is needed in order to be extremely fast.
  • Incremental deploy (coming soon) Deploy only changed content.

🌐 Network-edge personalization

  • Personalize pages on the edge, without client-side Javascript (coming soon) Create complex rules and change the page based on request parameters, such as visitor country or cookie values. Use this to create A/B tests, GDPR banners, or product recommendations. This requires the Cloudflare hosting plugin.

🤓 Best-in-class developer experience

  • Fully typed using TypeScript and TSX Intellisense and type checking in layout templates.
  • Highly modular Layouts are just TSX components. Import any additional components or libraries as you wish.
  • Easily create client-side components (coming soon) Create client-side code right in your layout files.

Installation

You need to have the Deno runtime installed. When you have it installed, just run:

deno install --allow-read --allow-write --allow-net https://deno.land/x/bob/cli.ts

Usage

To build your site, in the site root, just run:

$> bob

See the docs directory for an example implementation. See CLI help with bob -h.

Layout files

Layouts are just TSX components, exported as a default export from different files. Structure your code and components as you wish, but make sure you have a default layout located in layouts/_default.tsx.

Content files

Add Markdown content files to the content directory as needed. Each content file will be rendered into an HTML file using the corresponding path into the public directory.