This is a static page generator.
An example of a website generated by it can be found at jduarte.eu.
I initially only wanted to create a simple website. Most of the tools I work with are overkill for a static website and I didn't feel like hand writing and copying HTML code a bunch of times.
I could technically learn how to use one of the many available static website generating tools, but I felt like the concept itself seemed simple enough that I might aswell do it myself.
So here it is. By this point, I can't even remember exactly what I wanted to create a website for, but whatever it might be, this tool aims to help me do that.
[UPDATE AUGUST 2022]
By this point, this is less of a generic static page generator and more of static picture gallery website generator. It is what it is.
The generator currently has two generating behaviours: text pages and image galleries.
Text pages are HTML pages converted from Markdown documents. These should be stored inside a directory which you can point to by changing the PAGES_FOLDER variable in the .env file.
Photo galleries are generated from photos containing keyword data. Each keyword will generate a section with the pictures which have that keyword placed within. The website's main page will display all photos. Point to your photos by changing the PICTURES_FOLDER directory in the .env file.
Running the docker container then sets up an nginx server with the pages you've just generated.
If you want to try this, I recommend setting up a virtual environment. For example:
$ python3 -m venv venv
$ source venv/bin/activate
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
And then running the generator.py script.
Eventually, I want this all to be done automatically when running the Docker container.
You can then run the container with:
$ docker-compose up --build
Et voilà!
You should be able to access your new empire website at localhost.