Have you ever looked at the complexity of modern websites and thought
someone should make it stop? When you come across a needlessly
complicated “web app” do you wish you could make it stop and become
a static website? Have you turned to static website generators only to
find them reliant on too many dependencies and a scripting language you
don’t have installed on your minimalist machine? Then, make it_stop
could be for you!
Disclaimer: the former is meant to be a tongue-in-cheek play on words, I don’t wish to aggravate hardworking web developer nor developers of static website generators (they are all better than this one).
How many websites could `Make` make if `Make` GNU how to make websites?
Make it stop is my sorry attempt at making Make make static websites
from simple markdown files, coupled with raw html and css.
Notes:
The GNU/knew pun is taken from this epic rap battle from history.
make it\_stop is intended to be compatible with different versions
of Make, not only with (GNU) Make.
Write your pages in PAGES_DIR
Customize the files in TEMPLATES_DIR
If necessary change the defaults in config.mk
Run make it_stop
Preview the rendered pages in WEB_DIR by opening them with your
browser.
Iterate over the previous steps until you’re happy with the results
Get the pages in WEB_DIR to your web server or use GitLab Pages.
For more detailed instructions checkout the tutorial.