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NAME

Web::PerlDistSite - generate fairly flashy websites for CPAN distributions

DESCRIPTION

Basically a highly specialized static site generator.

Prerequisites

You will need cpanm.

You will need nodejs with npm.

You will need make.

Setup

Create a directory and copy the example Makefile and package.json files from this distribution into it. Then run make install to install additional Nodejs and Perl dependencies.

Site Configuration

Configuration is via a file config.yaml. This is a YAML file containing a hash with the following keys. Each key is optional, unless noted as required. An example config.yaml is included in this distribution.

theme (required)

A hashref of colour codes. You need at least "primary", "secondary", "light", and "dark". "info", "success", "warning", and "danger" are also allowed.

  theme:
    light: "#e4e3e1"
    dark: "#32201D"
    primary: "#763722"
    secondary: "#E4A042"

A good colour generator can be found at https://huemint.com/bootstrap-basic/ if you're stuck for ideas.

The theme hashref can also include Bootstrap's non-colour SASS options. See https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.2/customize/options/.

An example is:

  theme:
    light: "#e4e3e1"
    dark: "#32201D"
    primary: "#763722"
    secondary: "#E4A042"
    "enable-shadows": "true"
name (required)

The name of the project you're building a website for. This is assumed to be a CPAN distribution name, like "Exporter-Tiny" or "Foo-Bar-Baz".

abstract (required)

A short plain-text summary of the project.

abstract_html

A short HTML summary of the project.

A short plain-text copyright statement for the website footers.

github

Link to a GitHub repo for the site. Expected to be of the form "https://github.com/username/reponame".

issues

Link to an issue tracker.

Hashref containing project sponsorship info. The "html" key is required. The "href" key is optional.

  sponsor:
    html: "<strong>Please sponsor us!</strong> Blah blah blah."
    href: https://paypal.example/foo-bar-baz

A list of files to include in the navbar. If this key is missing, will be loaded from menu.yaml instead.

homepage

Hashref of options for the homepage (index.html). May contain keys "animation", "banner", "banner_fixation", "banner_position_x", and "banner_position_y".

The "animation" may be "waves1", "waves2", "swirl1", "attract1", or "circles1". Each of these will create a pretty animation on the homepage. Some day I'll add support for more animations.

If "animation" is not defined, then "banner" can be used to supply the URL of a static image to use instead of an animation.

"banner_fixation" can be "scroll" or "fixed", and defaults to the latter. "banner_position_x" can be "left", "center", or "right". "banner_position_y" can be "top", "center", or "bottom". These each default to "center".

"hero_options" is itself a hashref and allows various parts of the banner/animation to be overridden. In particular, "title" and "abstract".

  homepage:
    animation: waves1
    hero_options:
      title: "Blah"
      abstract: "Blah blah blah"

In the future, more homepage options may be available.

dist_dir

Directory for output. Defaults to a subdirectory called "docs".

root_url

URL for the output. Can be an absolute URL, but something like "/" is probably okay. (That's the default.)

codestyle

Name of a highlight.js theme, used for code syntax highlighting. Defaults to "github".

pod_filter

A list of section names which will be filtered out of pages generated from pod files. Uses "|" as a separator. Defaults to: "NAME|BUGS|AUTHOR|THANKS|COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE|DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES".

pod_titlecase

Boolean. Should ALL CAPS "=head1" headings from pod be converted to Title Case? Defaults to true.

pod_downgrade_headings

Converts pod "=head1" to <h2> tags in HTML, etc.

The menu can be configured under the menu key of config.yaml, or in a separate file menu.yaml. This is a list of menu items. For example:

  - name: installation
    title: Installation
    source: _pages/installation.md
  - name: hints
    title: Hints and Tips
    source: _pages/hints.pod
  - name: manual
    title: Manual
    children:
      - name: Foo-Bar
        pod: Foo::Bar
      - name: Foo-Bar-Baz
        pod: Foo::Bar::Baz

The name key is used for the output filename. ".html" is automatically appended.

The title key is the title of the document generated. It is used in the navbar and in the page's title element.

Each entry needs a source which is an input filename. The input may be pod or markdown. (At some future point, HTML input will also be supported.)

If the pod key is found, we'll find the pod via @INC, like perldoc does. This will helpfully also default title and name for you!

A children key allows child pages to be listed. Only one level of nesting is supported in the navbar, but if further levels of nesting are used, these pages will still be built. (You'll just need to link to them manually somehow.)

A meta key allows you to provide metadata for a page. It's an array of hashrefs. Each item in the array will result in a <meta content=""> or <link href=""> tag added to the document's <head>. For example:

      - name: installation
        title: How to install
        source: _pages/installation.html
        meta:
          - name: description
            content: "How to install my module."
          - rel: related
            href: "https://videotube.example/1234"
            title: "Watch a screen recording of module installation"

A list item like this can be used to add dividers:

      - divider: true

If the input is pod, you can also provide pod_filter, pod_titlecase, and pod_downgrade_headings settings which override the global settings.

If the input is markdown, you may use "----" (four hyphens) on a line by itself to divide the page into cute sections.

Homepage

You'll need a file called _pages/index.md for the site's homepage. The filename may be configurable some day.

Custom CSS

You can create a file called custom.scss containing custom SCSS code to override or add to the defaults.

Adding Images

If you create a directory called images, this will be copied to docs/assets/images/ during the build process. This should be used for things like background images, etc.

Building the Site

Running make all will build the site.

Running make clean will remove the docs directory and also any temporary SCSS files created during the build process.

EXAMPLE

Example: https://github.com/exportertiny/exportertiny.github.io

Generated this site: https://exportertiny.github.io

More Examples

BUGS

Please report any bugs to https://github.com/tobyink/p5-web-perldistsite/issues.

AUTHOR

Toby Inkster <tobyink@cpan.org>.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

This software is copyright (c) 2023 by Toby Inkster.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.