pharos-ssg

Table of Contents

• Who Is This For?
• Why pharos-ssg?
  • Live Image Synthesis
  • Fully Reflective Logic
• Quick Start
• Requirements
• Part of poly-ssg
• License

Live, object-oriented static site generation in Pharo. "Pharos" — A lighthouse in the sea of static files. A site engine where your content lives as a graph of interactive objects.

Who Is This For?

• Smalltalkers who prefer a "live image" environment over a "edit-compile-run" cycle.

• Architects who view site structure as a dynamic object-graph rather than a file-tree.

• Teams needing a reflective, interactive build environment that persists state across sessions.

Why pharos-ssg?

Live Image Synthesis

In pharos-ssg, the generator and the site content share the same memory space. Changes to a template are reflected instantly across the entire object-graph. You don’t "run" a build; you "save" the state of the objects into HTML.

Fully Reflective Logic

The engine can inspect itself and your content at runtime. Use the Pharo inspector to navigate your site’s hierarchy, find broken links, and refactor templates as live objects.

Quick Start

# Download the Pharo image via asdf
just setup

# Open the live environment to edit the site-graph
just open

# Headless build for CI/CD pipelines
just build-headless

Requirements

• Pharo VM (v12 or later)

• Just (Orchestrator)

Part of poly-ssg

pharos-ssg is the interactive, image-based member of the poly-ssg family.

License

AGPL-3.0-or-later