Static Site Generator

s-s-generator is a small static site generator written in Rust. You write content as markdown files with YAML front-matter, point the tool at a template, and it walks your content tree and writes HTML into dist/ — the same mental model as Hugo or Eleventy, but small enough to read the whole implementation in an afternoon.

The pipeline is deliberately simple: parse front-matter with serde_yaml, convert markdown body to HTML with pulldown-cmark, inject {{title}}, {{date}}, and {{content}} into an HTML layout, and mirror the folder structure under dist/. Static assets like CSS sitting next to markdown get copied through unchanged. A --file flag lets you rebuild a single page while iterating instead of the whole site.

I built it to understand what frameworks like Next and Astro abstract away — how routing maps to files, how templates compose, and how a recursive directory walk turns into a publishable tree. It's not meant to compete with production SSGs; it's a clear reference for the core mechanics.

Nested paths work out of the box (content/posts/hello.md → dist/posts/hello.html), and --clean wipes the output folder before each full build so stale pages don't linger.