Maurice

Maurice is a static website generator made with Dart.

You can generate a static blog ready to be deployed in just a few commands. It's easy and minimalist.
It supports :

• sitemap
• RSS feed
• pagination
• page generation for each resource (article, product, project...)

How to install it

dart pub global activate maurice

Or check the pub page

Demo

It's a simple website generated with Maurice.

Maurice Soccer

The concept

Maurice is using 2 kind of object : page and resource

A page is some HTML code that the tool will use to generate the final HTML pages.

A resource is a markdown file that contains data to populate a page. For instance, you can have the resource article, product, employee...

The resources are more or less a file database. I choose to not use a SQLite databse because I want the data to be easy to edit and create.

A page can use a resource to generate its content. Thanks to some configuration, you can define if a page will paginate the resources or if it generates a page for each item.

Both objects follow the same format. The first block contains configuration and variables injected to the templater and a second block that's contains either markdown or HTML.

How to use

maurice create <path> : create a new project

maurice resource new <resource name> : create a new kind of resource

maurice resource publish <resource id> : make the resource visible

maurice page new : create a new page

maurice build : build the project into a full html website into the output folder

The routing

Maurice uses a folder-structure to generate the routes. For instances, the page pages/articles/1.html will be reached on the URL http://website.com/articles/1.html.
The pages must be stored in the pages folder.

You are free to move the pages into the subfolders you want. Maurice will regenerate your website, the sitemap and RSS feed accordingly.

What happens during the generation :

• page without resources : It generates the page at the same level with the same title

• pagination : It generates a folder called pages at the same level than the page. Then the pages folder will contains pages named 1.html, 2.html etc...

• page per resource item : It generates all pages in the same folder