Thanks for your feedback! I agree that shell script is sort of a natural fit for templating, you just take plain text and massage it into HTML.
There are 3rd party solutions for ugc for static sites like https://staticman.net/ which are acceptable. OpenBSD stat is used to generate the timestamp for invalidating the cache on css and js files for example. <link rel=stylesheet href=theme.css?$(stat -f '%Sm' -t '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ' "theme.css"> GNU stat has a different parameter signature, so I just bundled the OpenBSD one in the binary packages for distribution reasons. I could create a set of simple utilities to generate that timestamp and bundle them in the binary package. I plan to create "plugin" scripts stored in ./share/libexec which would be called from the main mkws binary. On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 11:59 AM Thomas Oltmann <thomas.oltmann....@gmail.com> wrote: > > Am Di., 1. Sept. 2020 um 10:49 Uhr schrieb Thomas Oltmann > <thomas.oltmann....@gmail.com>: > > Take navigation menus as an example. It is my understanding that werc > > offers a pre-baked solution for this. > > In mkws, if I needed a navigation bar on my pages, what I might do is > > I could write a mknav.sh script that scans > > through my source folder and outputs a list of links in HTML markup, > > which I then call at the start of each .upphtml file. > > Nevermind, I just found out about l.upphtml, so this example is mute. > -- Thank you, Adi, Freelance Developer http://adi.tilde.institute/
