Lithogen - the core processing package Lithogen.Boilerplate - HTML5 boilerplate project Lithogen.Blog - blog example Lithogen.Samples - examples

[ ] Get the RazorEngine working. BUT it may be that ServiceStack can do all this and more. Xipton [ ] Project file contains ToolsVersion="12.0". This toolset may be unknown or missing, in which case you may be able to resolve this by installing the appropriate version of MSBuild, or the build may have been forced to a particular ToolsVersion for policy reasons. Treating the project as if it had ToolsVersion="4.0". For more information, please see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=291333.

[ ] Investigate ServiceStack for RazorMarkdown and asset processing. [ ] If ServiceStack looks good, use it to run HighlighjJS, otherwise I will probably need to port it.

MVC uses /Content (for css) /Images /Models /Scripts /Views

Service Stack Bundler uses /bundler (installed here) /Content - /Scripts - as defined in bundler.cmd, easily changed

Principles Never change anything in the source tree (because it will be under source control) Razor Engine NuGet Rankings RazorEngine - 227,240 - lots of things are based on this, looks a bit simplistic. https://github.com/Antaris/RazorEngine RazorMachine - 9615 - looks good, see the CodeProject article. LOOKS BEST of the standalone ones. https://github.com/jlamfers/RazorMachine RazorGenerator - seems to be a VS extension, avoid RazorTempaltes - 3899 - small, maybe interesting. https://github.com/volkovku/RazorTemplates WestWind.RazorHosting - 2116 - can inject a model! Does not support layouts or partials? SharpRazor - 110 - looks interesting, can inject a model into its Parse() method How to inject models? Assets Engine Markdown Support Graze - appears to do .md -> .html in one step, no use of Razor. Ocam - appears to do .md -> .html in one step, no use of Razor. Better source code than Graze? Image Compression This should be a one-off task. We can bundle some tools to help out. PNG quantization to 256 colors. MetaData stripping. JPEQ compression.
ConfigZilla integration A basic configuration that is used to create a class that is injected into the ViewBag and can be used to control the views. @if ViewBag.Config.EnableGoogleAnalytics Template site HTML5 boilerplate, also gives you jQuery, Modernizr and Normalize.css and Google Analytics. Highlight.js for syntax highlighting of code. jQuery Colorbox for image popups, carousels and dialogs. Font Awesome for icon goodness! Live Reload (in Debug) Layout should follow ASP.Net MVC standards: \favicon.ico Views\Shared Views_ViewStart.cshtml Views\Web.config (needed at compile time) \css \scripts \images \Models (for automatic model injection)

[ ] How to serve the LiveReload and static sites during development. [ ] How to do friendly URL generation? [ ] How to build a really flexible View Engine - like Docpad with *.cshtml.md.foo extension processing? Should it be a design principle that ViewEngines read a file once to get a string, then pass it on to other stages before it is written (by the last "ViewWriter" stage)? How can the individual stages be configured? A map of extension to ViewTransformFunc?

Tasks CleanUpOutput - remove DLLs, pdb and web.config

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The Appbase shown is the location of MSBuild.

1>C:\Users\Phil\repos\Lithogen\Lithogen.TaskShim\Lithogen.TaskShim.targets(7,5): error MSB4018: === Pre-bind state information === 1>C:\Users\Phil\repos\Lithogen\Lithogen.TaskShim\Lithogen.TaskShim.targets(7,5): error MSB4018: LOG: DisplayName = Lithogen.Core, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null 1>C:\Users\Phil\repos\Lithogen\Lithogen.TaskShim\Lithogen.TaskShim.targets(7,5): error MSB4018: (Fully-specified) 1>C:\Users\Phil\repos\Lithogen\Lithogen.TaskShim\Lithogen.TaskShim.targets(7,5): error MSB4018: LOG: Appbase = file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v4.0.30319/ 1>C:\Users\Phil\repos\Lithogen\Lithogen.TaskShim\Lithogen.TaskShim.targets(7,5): error MSB4018: LOG: Initial PrivatePath = NULL 1>C:\Users\Phil\repos\Lithogen\Lithogen.TaskShim\Lithogen.TaskShim.targets(7,5): error MSB4018: Calling assembly : (Unknown). 1>C:\Users\Phil\repos\Lithogen\Lithogen.TaskShim\Lithogen.TaskShim.targets(7,5): error MSB4018: === 1>C:\Users\Phil\repos\Lithogen\Lithogen.TaskShim\Lithogen.TaskShim.targets(7,5): error MSB4018: LOG: This bind starts in default load context. 1>C:\Users\Phil\repos\Lithogen\Lithogen.TaskShim\Lithogen.TaskShim.targets(7,5): error MSB4018: LOG: Using application configuration file: C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\MSBuild.exe.Config 1>C:\Users\Phil\repos\Lithogen\Lithogen.TaskShim\Lithogen.TaskShim.targets(7,5): error MSB4018: LOG: Using host configuration file: 1>C:\Users\Phil\repos\Lithogen\Lithogen.TaskShim\Lithogen.TaskShim.targets(7,5): error MSB4018: LOG: Using machine configuration file from C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\config\machine.config. 1>C:\Users\Phil\repos\Lithogen\Lithogen.TaskShim\Lithogen.TaskShim.targets(7,5): error MSB4018: LOG: Policy not being applied to reference at this time (private, custom, partial, or location-based assembly bind). 1>C:\Users\Phil\repos\Lithogen\Lithogen.TaskShim\Lithogen.TaskShim.targets(7,5): error MSB4018: LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v4.0.30319/Lithogen.Core.DLL. 1>C:\Users\Phil\repos\Lithogen\Lithogen.TaskShim\Lithogen.TaskShim.targets(7,5): error MSB4018: LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v4.0.30319/Lithogen.Core/Lithogen.Core.DLL. 1>C:\Users\Phil\repos\Lithogen\Lithogen.TaskShim\Lithogen.TaskShim.targets(7,5): error MSB4018: LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v4.0.30319/Lithogen.Core.EXE. 1>C:\Users\Phil\repos\Lithogen\Lithogen.TaskShim\Lithogen.TaskShim.targets(7,5): error MSB4018: LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v4.0.30319/Lithogen.Core/Lithogen.Core.EXE. 1>C:\Users\Phil\repos\Lithogen\Lithogen.TaskShim\Lithogen.TaskShim.targets(7,5): error MSB4018:

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Lithogen is a static site generator for .Net. A "static site" is a website that contains only HTML, CSS and JavaScript. There is no back-end processor such as ASP or CGI, and as a consequence the resulting website can be served by any webserver - including Linux based ones such as Nginx - and is typically small and fast compared to a website that needs a backend.

Lithogen builds on standard ASP.Net technologies and runs inside Visual Studio

• there is no command line tool to run, you just build the solution as you would normally and the output folder will contain your static website.

Clone this repo, start adding .cshtml or .md pages in the project and build!

• Websites are based on the HTML5 boilerplate project, which gives you a great starting point for building modern, mobile-friendly websites. HTML5 boilerplate also gives you jQuery, Modernizr and Normalize.css and Google Analytics.

• Razor or Markdown syntax for web page authoring.

• Highlight.js for syntax highlighting of code.

• jQuery Colorbox for image popups, carousels and dialogs.

• Font Awesome for icon goodness!

• WebGrease for minification of JavaScript, CSS and images. Not to mention SASS support!

• In the standard Debug build, Live Reload is used to give instant feedback on your changes.

• Use MSBuild configurations (Debug, Release, etc.) in conjunction with ConfigZilla to create different builds of your website. You can trivially include or exclude features based on the current configuration.

• Extension points to allow you to hook into the build pipeline and extend it with your own functionality.