Installation

npm install cryonax -g

Usage

Create a new website in current directory

cryonax init
cryonax init -o path/to/dir

Create a sample website (blog)

cryonax example
cryonax example -o path/to/dir

Create a new document

cryonax doc
cryonax doc -o path/to/dir

Create a new view

cryonax view
cryonax view -o path/to/dir

Build website in current directory

cryonax build
cryonax build -i path/to/dir -o path/to/output

Documents

A cryonax document is a text file with (markdown) content and meta data that can be queried.

A document looks like this:

---
{
	"type": "blog",
	"title": "First entry!",
	"date": "Date(2 february 2014)",
	"labels": ["politics", "opinion"]
}
---

the content of my blog post

At the top of the document is a meta-data section. Meta data is represented as a JSON object.
In addition to regular JSON data types, you can use "Date()" to create a Date object.

Views

A cryonax view is a HTML template with embedded javascript in <% and %> tags.

<h1><% print(model.meta.title); %></h1>

is rendered as

<h1>First entry!</h1>

Build Script

The cryonax build script is named "build.js" and contains instructions to generate your website.

API

console

Native console functions

require()

Native require function

document(path)

Retrieve a document by path

var doc = document("blog/2014/first-post.md");

Properties

• doc.name - the filename of the document
• doc.meta - the metadata associated with the document (e.g. doc.meta.title)
• doc.content - the rest of the document contents

documents()

Retrieve all documents

var articles = documents()
	.filter(function(doc) { return doc.meta.type == "blog"; });

view(path)

Retrieve a view by path

var template = view("blog/article.html");

Properties

• view.name - the filename of the view

Methods

• view.render(model) - render the view, returns a string

Example

// build.js
view("page/head.html").render({ title: "My Blog" });
    
// page/head.html
<h1><% print(model.title); %></h1>

markdown(text)

Convert markdown to html

var html = markdown(document("about.md").content);

Cryonax uses marked as default markdown parser. If you want to use your own markdown parser, you'll have to require it yourself.
Cryonax uses highlight.js as syntax highlighter by default.

summary(html, length, continuedText)

Retrieve a summary of a section of html

• html The HTML text to summarize
• length The maximum length of the summary
• continuedText Text to append to the summary if the html was clipped

var html = markdown(document("about.md").content);
var text = summary(html, 10, "[...]");
// text = "Lorem ipsum [...]"

print(text)

Outputs a string (only available in views)

save(path, contents)

Save a file (only available in build.js)