Sitix began in Summer '23 when I got fed up with the quirks of Jekyll and decided to build my own templating engine. I put together a schematic not unlike modern Sitix and began implementing it in Rust (which I had just learned), but I quickly realized that my pattern was simply not going to work for such a complex design, and so after a lot of fruitless debugging and such I eventually stopped developing it. It's probably still up here.
In November '24 I was working on a client's website and, once again, got fed up with Jekyll. I remembered the Sitix project I'd begun in 2023 and tried to implement it - but failed spectacularly. Sitix was a shipwreck. So, through early March, I reimplemented: I moved to C++, a much more familiar language; changed the structure to be just quirky enough to satisfy me while still robust and usable, and quickly got Sitix behind several websites.
Sitix is designed to replace everything I like about Jekyll (Liquid. It's just Liquid. I hate literally everything else), while also providing a saner interface, and being much easier to compile and install (farewell, Gem Hell). I also incorporated concepts from JavaScript (especially JSON); parts of the object model are obviously inspired by JavaScript, and the tree-like structure of a Sitix file is heavily remnant of JSON. I also added a little of my own "charm"; evident in the scope system (which is even less sane than JavaScript's) and the not-quite-XML tag structure.
Sitix is a very young project, and I'm still working out the bugs and adding crucial features. The stuff I'm working on is usually going to be near the top of the TODO list.
Sitix is protected by GNU GPLv3. Please put a little "built with Sitix by Tyler Clarke" with a link to this website somewhere on every Sitix-generated page you make (Sitix can make this easy with templates :D), if you choose to use Sitix.
Imagine an SSG
that's FAST
that's project agnostic
that Keeps It Simple, Stupid
that Just Makes Sense
that makes no assumptions
Sitix
Sitix is a modern SSG (Static Site Generator) that allows you total control over how your project is assembled, without sacrificing ease. It uses an object/scope model with efficient file includes, conditional branching, looping, and command-line configuration to make stunning websites without the mess.
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- Template all the things. Any Sitix file can be a template; the [?] opening phrase indicates that (for whatever reason) the file shouldn't be rendered normally, but still may be included in other files - for configuration, templating, or even modular elements!
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-Sitix is a universal preprocessor. HTML? Of course. CSS? Yep! JavaScript? Certainly! Sitix will template anything, whether it be a nice simple HTML file or a hand-edited GIF from 1998. Say goodbye to annoying configuration discrepancies between CSS and HTML and JavaScript - just throw your shared variables in a config.stx file and let Sitix do the rest!
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- No more restrictive project structures, irritating configuration files, or magic. Goodbye Ruby, "blog-awareness", difficult configuration, and bulky outputs. Sayonara obtuse frameworks, inefficient CSR, and annoying build pipelines. Sitix renders what you want, when you want it, and doesn't ask questions.
Like what you see? install Sitix and start building modern websites now!
