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This crate provides the core functionality of Eric’s Blog Generator.
It is primarily meant to be driven by the ebg binary, but in theory it can
be used as a library if you try hard enough.
The site generator process goes through several phases:
- Indexing
- Rendering
- Generation
In a more traditional compiler, these phases correspond roughly to parsing, compilation, and linking.
The program is largely serial right now, but the hope is it can be pipelined and parallelized to be an exceptionally fast site generator.
§Indexing
The indexing phase is responsible for reading the site’s configuration and all the source files. The end result is a data structure that can be used to compute metadata about the site, links between pages, etc.
§Rendering
The rendering phase is responsible for taking any markdown source pages and generating the HTML for them.
§Generation
The final step is to write out all the rendered contents into the destination directory. Many files are copied directly, but this also generates HTML pages from the rendered markdown contents of the last phase.
Modules§
- Contains data structures that represent the full site.