natechoe.dev generator
A very simple tool to generate natechoe.dev pages. It's effectively just a generic file preprocessor with HTML some auto escaping.
Please not that ncdg minifies HTML so these examples aren't really correct.
Usage
There are only 4 features in ncdg:
Include statements
file1.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset='utf-8'>
<link rel='stylesheet' href='/resources/style.css'>
</head>
<body>
@%file2.html@
</body>
</html>
file2.html
<h1>Title!</h1>
<p>Content!</p>
Result:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset='utf-8'>
<link rel='stylesheet' href='/resources/style.css'>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Title!</h1>
<p>Content!</p>
</body>
</html>
Variables
file1.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset='utf-8'>
<link rel='stylesheet' href='/resources/style.css'>
<title>%!title%</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>@!title@</h1>
@%file2.html@
</body>
</html>
file2.html
@=title Title!@
<p>Content!</p>
Result:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset='utf-8'>
<link rel='stylesheet' href='/resources/style.css'>
<title>Title!</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Title!</h1>
<p>Content!</p>
</body>
</html>
A variable expansion can go through multiple variables until one is found.
file.html
@!var1,var2,var3@
@=var2 value@
Result:
value
var1 doesn't exist, so ncdg moves on to var2, which does exist, and skips var3.
Certain variable names have default variables
hello_world.html
@!_filename@
Result:
hello_world.html
Automatic escaping
<pre><code>@\
#include <stdio.h>
@</code></pre>
Result:
<pre><code>#include <stdio.h>
</code></pre>
Note that text inside of escaped sections is not minified. Also note that the first character after the code is swallowed.
Excluding minification
@&
&
this text isn't minified
@
Result:
&
this text isn't minified
Used for legacy web pages on my site that I don't want to update
Nesting
@=var Hello world!@
@n @@$ echo '@!var@' | rev @@ @m
Turns into
@$ echo 'Hello world!' | rev @
Turns into
!dlrow olleH
Things between an @n and @m tag get processed twice. Defining variables in a
nest is illegal, so
@n @@= dynamic_variable @$./generate_variable_value.sh@ @@ @m
is illegal