Blog

My blog website - generated from Jinja templates and markdown articles as a static site.

Development

You will require Python 3. Run the following to install required modules:

python3 -m pip installl -r requirements.txt
python3 setup.py develop

You can then generate the site using:

python3 -m blog.generate

To run a local Docker instance of Nginx to serve a generated set of files, run:

docker run --rm -d --name blog -v $(pwd)/docker/nginx.conf:/etc/nginx/nginx.conf:ro -v $(pwd)/dist:/usr/share/nginx/html -p 8080:80 nginx

You can then run the when-changed package to automatically generate the blog files anytime a change is made:

when-changed -r -1 articles blog -c python3 -m blog.generate

(You must be using a virtual environment or your Python bin files must be on your path for this to work.)

Then head to http://localhost:8080 to view the results.

You can stop the docker container with docker stop blog.

Testing

Testing uses Pytest - run it as follows (installing the required modules too):

pytest --verbose

Build and Release

The GitHub Actions pipeline handles testing, building and releasing the static site version. Upon the main branch being updated, a new version of the blog will be automatically released to GitHub and the new version will be immediately deployed to the live website. The same pipeline can be used to deploy other versions if required.