[Haskell-cafe] Re: ANN: yst 0.2.1

[John MacFarlane]

Thanks. I'll put a note to this effect in the README.

John

+++ Jinjing Wang [Aug 03 09 18:17 ]:
> It's possible to serve the generated site with maid, in case apache is
> not available:
> 
> cabal update
> cabal install maid
> 
> yst create testsite
> cd testsite
> yst
> 
> cd site
> maid
> 
> now goto http://localhost:3000/
> 
> On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 9:05 AM, John MacFarlane<jgm at berkeley.edu> wrote:
> > I'm pleased to announce the release of yst, now available on HackageDB.
> > yst generates static websites from YAML or CSV data files and
> > StringTemplates. This approach combines the speed, security, and ease of
> > deployment of a static website with the flexibility and maintainability
> > of a dynamic site that separates presentation and data.
> >
> > The easiest way to get a feel for yst is to try it:
> >
> > cabal update
> > cabal install yst
> > yst create testsite
> > cd testsite
> > yst
> >
> > yst attempts to fill a niche between two kinds of site creation tools.
> > On the one hand you have simple static site generators like webgen,
> > webby, nanoc, and my old custom system using make and pandoc. On the
> > other hand, you have dynamic web frameworks like rails and django.
> > For my own smallish websites, I found that the dynamic frameworks were
> > overkill. Nobody but me was going to edit the pages, and I didn't
> > want the trouble of writing and deploying a dynamic site, setting up
> > a web server, and administering a database. A static site would be
> > faster, easier to deploy, and more secure. But the dynamic frameworks
> > offered one thing that the static site generators did not: an easy way
> > to separate data from presentation. This was becoming increasingly
> > important to me as I found myself constantly updating the same
> > information (say, publication data for a paper) in multiple places (say,
> > a LaTeX CV and a differently formatted web listing of papers).
> >
> > What I wanted was a site generation tool that used YAML text files
> > as a database and allowed different kinds of documents to be produced
> > from the same data.  I couldn't find anything that did just what I
> > wanted, so I wrote yst. By way of illustration, here are the build
> > instructions for HTML and LaTeX versions of a CV, plus a web page with a
> > list of papers:
> >
> > - url: cv.html
> >  title: CV
> >  template: cv.st
> >  data_common:  &cvdata
> >    contact: from contact.yaml
> >    jobsbyemployer: from jobs.yaml order by start group by employer
> >    degrees: from degrees.yaml order by year desc
> >    awards: from awards.yaml order by year desc group by title
> >    papers: from papers.yaml order by year desc where (not (type = 'review'))
> >    reviews: from papers.yaml order by year desc where type = 'review'
> >    talks: from talks.yaml where date < '2009-09-01' order by date desc group by title
> >    dissertations: from dissertations.yaml order by role then year group by role
> >    theses: from theses.yaml order by year then student
> >    courses: from courses.yaml order by number group by title
> >  data:
> >    <<:  *cvdata
> >    html: yes
> >
> > - url: cv.tex
> >  title: CV
> >  inmenu: no
> >  template: cv.st
> >  layout: layout.tex.st
> >  data:
> >    <<:  *cvdata
> >    html: yes
> >
> > - url: papers.html
> >  title: Papers
> >  template: papers.st
> >  data:
> >    papersbyyear:  from papers.yaml order by year desc then title group by year
> >
> > yst's query language is limited, and there are lots of things you can
> > do with a full-fledged database that you can't do with yst. But yst
> > is ideal, I think, for small to medium data-driven sites that are
> > maintained by a single person who likes working with plain text. It
> > scratched my itch, anyway, and I release it in case anyone else has the
> > same itch.
> >
> > Code, documentation, and bug reports:  http://github.com/jgm/yst/tree/master
> >
> > John
> >
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> 
> 
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