Bagatto Story: Modular and fast static site

This directory contains everything needed to generate Story theme site using Bagatto.

About the theme

Look here for a description. HTML5UP and caressofsteel made superb work!

Fast start:

To build the site:

• install or build Janet and Bagatto
• download this repo or clone it
• cd into this directory (the one containing index.janet),
• and then run

bag index.janet

You should see Bagatto output its progress as it creates the site, but get ready: It's quick!

The generated HTML will now be available in site/ and you can open site/index.html in your web browser.

Demo site

It's the index.html file in this repo. See it here.

Content choices

I chose to create the dynamic content as .md files, the rest is hard-coded in the templates. For example, the gallery header will probably not change much, but the individual pictures will. Same with the spotlights and items. I added a bit of markdown styles to the dynamic content Lorem ipsum..., just for a show..

All dynamic content resides in the content/ directory. Just makes sense.

Why port a theme to Bagatto? Why use bagatto?

Have a look at the way hugo, zola and other mainstream big names SSGs work. They are clearly not made to handle single-page sites, they are geared towards multi-page sites and this logic is built into them. You have to bend their rules a bit to handle single page sites. Look at the hugo-story theme source code in order to see it:

1. The site content resides in data/ folder instead of content/ folder.
2. All the text is pure html, since hugo by design processes markdown files only in content/.
3. All the text is in few big .yaml files, instead of small markdown files for each piece of content.
4. The index.html template calls the partial templates with the relevant .yaml files hard-coded for context, and there is no way (that I know of) to use context created in the content/ folder.

I checked other single-page themes for hugo. They are all trying hard to find ways around the limitations. All this makes generating your preferred single-page site a bit inconvenient..

Enter Bagatto & Janet

After seeing the problems with the usual SSG suspects, I looked for something that will work better for single-page sites. I limited myself to compiled SSGs because I wanted simple setup. The least probable choice was Bagatto of-coarse, since I have to learn Janet now and enter the lisp world. And who have heard of it anyhow?!

Well, how lucky!

Janet is an amazing language (I still don't understand much of it..), and the runtime is unbelievable. The compiled bag binary (as per my requirement), is just bytecode running on top of VM, all in a single app. So you have the full Janet VM at your disposal.

Further, there are no rigid rules here. You have your data, and you have functions operating on it and transforming it the way you like. So simple.

RTFM

Have a look at index.janet it's the file that describes how to make the site. Go take a look at Bagatto own site and the demo sites shipped with it. Read all the index.janet files you can find and the Bagatto source (it's short). It will make you smarter, I promise.

Thanks

• Calvin Rose, for Janet
• Zach Smith, for Bagatto
• HTML5UP, for the initial Story theme
• caressofsteel, for hugo-story port

License

This Bagatto theme is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.