Installation | Usage | Components and data
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html_gen is a tool to generate static pages, using components and data written in json files
You will need cargo installed ```zsh
git clone https://github.com/dcxo/htmlgen cd htmlgen cargo install --path .
you can simply do:zsh cargo install html_gen ```
Create a html_gen project ```zsh
htmlgen create [name] # If you don't write a name, htmlgen will ask you ```
Then write some content in the index.html file, add some componets and some data (more on this later), and finally build the project with:
```zsh
html_gen build ```
Your static page will be avaliable on the dist folder
To create a component, you have to create a html file in the components folder. The content of that file can be:
html
<Component [component's attributes]>
[component's body]
</Component>
like this to use attributes in your component, or directly without the Component tag:
html
[component's body]
to not use attributes.
To use it, you just write in your index or other component
html
<[component's name] [component's attributes] />
To use data, create a json file in data folder, for example, the file info.json:
json
{
"name": "html_gen",
"tags": [
"components", "html"
]
}
to use it use wrap in double curly brackets {{...}} a path to the value you want to use, i.e.:
html
<!-- html content -->
{{ info.name }}
{{ info.tags.0 }}
{{ info.tags.1 }}
<!-- more html content -->