Giving docpad a spin

docpad as a new content management system based on static files. This removes the need for a databse and makes it possible to store the content in git (or any version control system tou prefer).

Links:

http://docpad.org/

Hello world in docpad

First install NodeJS and npm if you haven't already.

Latest version when this is written is installed like this: npm install -g docpad@6.45.

Copied from here: http://docpad.org/docs/start

mkdir docpad-site && cd docpad-site

docpad init

npm install --save docpad-plugin-eco docpad-plugin-marked

mkdir -p src/documents/posts/

src/layouts/default.html.eco:

<html>
<head>
    <title><%= @document.title %></title>
    <%- @getBlock("meta").toHTML() %>
    <%- @getBlock("styles").toHTML() %>
</head>
<body>
    <%- @content %>
    <%- @getBlock("scripts").toHTML() %>
</body>
</html>

src/layouts/post.html.eco:

layout: default
<h1><%= @document.title %></h1>
<div><%- @content %></div>

src/documents/posts/hello.html.md:

layout: post
description: Hello World!
title: Hello World!
**Hello** World!

src/documents/index.html.eco:

<% for post in @getFilesAtPath("posts").toJSON(): %>
    <a href="<%= post.url %>"><%= post.title %></a><br/>
<% end %>

Generate the site

docpad run

open http://localhost:9778/

Add one more post:

src/documents/posts/world.html.md:

layout: post
description: Hello World!
title: Hello World!
Hello **World!**