staticSiteCon VS izyum

I released a project I was working on. It's the static site generator I have been mentioning in some of the past blog posts. I use released it as a npm package, as it's written in JavaScript. You can find it here.

PR to another repo: https://github.com/cychu42/staticSiteCon/pull/21 My partner's repo and testing setup was very similar to my own. The main difference was that they used multiple testing files which kept things more organized. In hindsight, I probably should've done the same thing to keep things cleaner.

For my static site generator, I was trying to set up tests that can be ran easily. I mean, it takes effort to run the same test manually and hope you don't forget to test all the specifics. Don't worry, you can can set up tests to run with one command instead!

Part of open source approach is that you can learn from others when allowed. The licence used by Docusaurus is MIT, so one is allowed to copy its features if the license is kept. For my static site generator here, I also uses MIT licence, so it matches. I decided to take ideas from Docusaurus's ability to parse links because I already have a bit of features in that direction, it's rather crucial, and I already have some idea of what I can do to make it happen.

I tried to refactor my code for my static site generator, with this commit.

To address two changes I wanted to add to the static site generator I talked about in previous posts, I first opened one issue for each: 1 2 Then, I made a branch to work on for each them: 1 2 Spoiler: I did merge them back to the main branch, as you can see!

Accepting Contribution For my repo, Alexander opened an issue to add features to support .md input files and bolded text from those files into HTML files.

For this lab, I decided to contribute to cychu42's static site generator project. So, I forked his project into my own repo and began working on it

First, I connected with Chen-Yuan through a post he created on Slack regarding seeking a peer code tester and reviewer for his tool called staticSiteCon. Since it uses NodeJS and Javascript, It was not difficult to test and review the code.

What is it? Recently, I’m working a static site generator using JavaScript . What it does is that it takes TXT files to convert into HTML web pages. You can find it here. I name it the TXT-to-HTML Static Site Converter...Yeah, I never claim to be good with names. It's a bit of struggle between being practical and creative. I use the minimist module to handle options for the program.

This week we worked on integrating CI into our open-source projects. It is not the first time for me to work with CI and pipelines in general, but I find it very satisfying to put my project on some pipeline every time. These kinds of automations sometimes feel like magic to me.

Repo I picked for adding unit tests is izyum, which is another SSG written in Node.js and TypeScript.

This week's objective was to set up a unit test environment for izyum and write some unit tests in order to cover core functionality.

The first thing I added was a CONTRIBUTING.md file where I located all info that I used to have in readme.md file about how to install the tool for development setup.

First of all, I created the issue for izyum where I briefly described what I want to do and how I am going to achieve it. After that, I made an implementation and created PR, which approved myself :)

Izyum has a lot of space for improvement in terms of code refactoring. The first and most obvious thing was the fact that all code was contained in a single index.ts file, which is a really bad practice. The combination of facts that it is a school project with deadlines and sometimes I can be pretty bad in terms of time management made the codebase to be a mess.

Hi! Thanks for checking in. This week I worked on adding a new feature to another Static Site Generator Izyum. It is written in TypeScript and CLI apps in TypeScript is something new for me, so let me tell you how it went.

This week's task was to implement two features for the existing product, for me it is izyum, which is my ssg tool.

Last week I was presented with the opportunity to contribute to Izyum, a static site generator tool that creates an HTML file for each .txt file provided. Since the application had no existing support for processing markdown files, I began by filing an issue for it.

Later,Tymur connected with me via Slack DM to test his SSG tool Izyum. This SSG is created using Typescript and NodeJS.