A static site generator written in Python.

• Jinja Templates
• Sass
• Localization
• Data

$ python setup.py install

Once the application is installed, you can create as many prototype projects as you like using -i <project-name>.

$ prototype -i my-website

When you want to work on your project, start the webserver. Sass is compiled automatically when the server is running.

$ cd my-website/
$ prototype
now serving on port 2000...

You can specify port using -p or --port

$ prototype -p 4567
now serving on port 4567...

JSON files can be added to the data folder and will be automatically available to the templates in the {{ data }} variable. For example if you add a file called things.json, you can access it like this:

{{ data['things.json'] }}

Pages can be translated into any language following the gettext protocol. Languages specified in the configuration will be build to their own directories. If you have 10 pages, and 10 languages, instead of managing 100 files you still just manage the 10.

To create a new language, add it to config.json, then run prototype --gettext. Then populate the new mo files with the correct translations, and run prototype --gettext again to compile the po files. The gettext command will retrieve new translation strings without harming your existing translations. Its used to both create new languages and compile po files after adding new translations.

Although you can link directly to assets using relative or absolute paths, you should use the {{ assets() }} function. This allows you to specify different paths for development and build.

Static files are compiled and saved to the build directory by using -b or --build.

$ prototype --build