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Firn

A Static Site Generator for Org Mode

• What's Firn? Firn generates a static site from org-mode files. It is a bit different from other static site generators, in that it intends to be a drop in solution for creating sites from already existing folders of org-files. Further, because org-mode has great capacity for collecting and displaying different kinds of data (links, logbooks, drawers, task keywords, tags, etc) we can make this data available when org-content is parsed into a data structure.

Currently, running the firn binary on a directory of org files performs the following:

• Reads all .org files in the directory recursively.
• Parses org-files into data structures with the lovely [[https://github.com/PoiScript/orgize][Orgize]].
• Collects all file links, tags and logbooks across all files.
• Passes files through a template system called [[https://github.com/Keats/tera][Tera]], and renders to HTML.

• How do I use it?

• Download the latest binary from the Github Releases page.
• Add the binary to your path, or use the =-d= flag to pass a directory to Firn

#+begin_src

navigate to a directory that has some org-files in it, then

scaffold out a site:

firn new

go explore what was generated:

ls -la _firn

start a server and go looking for your files:

if you have an org file called 'foo.org' it will become 'foo.html' etc.

firn serve

ready to build the output?

firn build #+end_src

Read the full usage documentation [[https://theiceshelf.com/firn.html][here]].

• Development & Contributing

• Rust version =1.58.0=
• see =Makefile= commands.
• You'll need a folder of Org files to test on.

A small roadmap can be found [[https://theiceshelf.com/firn.html#Roadmap][here.]]

• Limitations ** Development Server

The development server is quite naive. There is no caching or diffing in the replacement of changed assets in the /static or /data folder. ** Footnotes Due to how the parser parses footnotes, they must look like so: #+begin_src [fn:1]