Static Site Generator

What is ssg?

ssg is a static site generator written in shell script. This thing basically takes in files written in markdown format and converts them into proper html files that you can later deploy on your websites or your servers. All you need is a properly formatted config.txt file and you are ready to go. This article does not elaborate on configuring ssg or the formating config.txt file. Please see the github instructions for configuring and using ssg, alternatively you can also read this if you're getting started

For reference you can see this sites source code and all the markdown files in it, and how they are arranged and how they work. You can also watch a demo video on ssg, here is the link to youtube.

What it could be used for?

For converting markdown files into html files. Markdown files are easy to write compared to html ones as they require you to have tags and brackets and all sorts of things. Here, you write documents in clear and elegant markdown format and ssg does the dirty work for you and converts the file into html.

Not only that, with a proper directory structure provided to a config file, you can arrange a whole website structure pretty easily and quickly.

Why should you use it?

Well, you can use it if;

• You're converting a file from markown to html
• You're deploying a website and want to create file structure automatically
• If you dont love writing html files and love markdown files
• If you love speed and efficiency

Should I try it?

Depends on you. No harm in trying tho.