ap21-ssg VS SiteGenerationTool

For Lab 4, Maxim implemented the config support for my repo.

This week I've been working on another student repo. I had to make a feature that will allow user to specify all of their SSG options in a JSON formatted configuration file instead of having to pass them all as command line arguments every time.

Project Repo: ap21-ssg

I have created this issue 6 on the Arryell Parris project.

README.md file missing - I was working on the 'test' branch of my repos and did not switch back to the 'main' branch in order to push the updated README.md file there. It has now been pushed to the 'main' branch though it is not yet fully completed.

I have got the chance to review Arryell Paris code. I know him personally, but this was the first time we actually shared the code to review each other's work. With the help of this lab, it allows me to find the mistakes in his work and let me go throw my mistakes.

My pull request involved updating syntax for some files in order to modernize the code in the project. I've had minimal exposure to Python, only having worked on another student's SSG made in Python, so it was somewhat of a shift to understand the basics of Python syntax. There isn't much more to say at the moment, but I will update this post as I receive feedback from the maintainers and hopefully have my pull request merged.

Here is an example workflow from my class mate Rudy's recent PR to my repository where he added some testing to see that my CI was working: Successful actions run.

How did your partner's repo and testing setup differ from yours? I worked with sfrunza13 once again on his SSG. Even though he used Python and I used C++ for our projects, the tests were similar since they both accomplish the same task. With the understanding of the task being performed, the difference between languages did not matter significantly. Both the projects and tests were very similar. Although one significant difference was that my repo outsourced the Markdown parsing to a external module.

The issue that I filed for this:Replace index w navbar The commit:7435a0

For Lab 4, I added support for reading and parsing a JSON config file to Stefan's SSG.

In the third lab that we were assigned in my Opensource Dev course at Seneca we were taught how to checkout feature branches so that we can work on multiple features independently and how to later merge them all to the main branch and resolve conflicts. To do so we yet again used our simple site generators

The project I chose to contribute to was SiteGenerationTool by sfrunza13. I decided to add features to the project to be able to open .md files, and for .html files created using these files to have bold and italics Markdown indicators to be replaced with the appropriate HTML tags.

It turns out that writing SSG in python is not that complicated. (https://github.com/sfrunza13/SiteGenerationTool) The code that I was reading is very clear and concise, even if you are not very good at this language.

My first closed issue https://github.com/sfrunza13/SiteGenerationTool/issues/1