Lunet
A fast, modular static website generator
Install / Use
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lunet

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Lunet is a fast, modular static website generator for .NET, powered by Scriban templates.
✨ Features
- Scriban templating - full scripting language in your pages, layouts, and config (
config.scriban) - Layouts & includes - automatic layout resolution with section-aware search paths
- Themes & extensions - install themes/plugins directly from GitHub repos (
extend "owner/repo@tag") - npm resources - fetch and cache npm packages (Bootstrap, Font Awesome…) without a separate
node_modulesworkflow - Markdown - Markdig-based with cross-reference link support
- SCSS / Dart Sass - compile SCSS to CSS with the embedded Dart Sass compiler
- Bundles - declarative CSS/JS bundling with automatic minification
- Taxonomies - tags, categories, or any custom taxonomy with auto-generated term pages
- RSS, sitemaps, search - RSS feeds,
sitemap.xml, and client-side search index generation - SEO & social cards - OpenGraph / Twitter meta tags from page metadata
- Data loading - pull structured data from YAML, JSON, or TOML files into templates
- Menus - define navigation trees via simple
menu.ymlfiles - Live reload - built-in dev server with file watcher and automatic browser refresh
- Analytics - Google Analytics injection (production builds only)
- .NET API docs - generate API reference pages from .NET projects/assemblies - unique to Lunet
- URL patterns - glob-based rules to apply metadata (URLs, layouts, etc.) across pages
- Summarizer - automatic page summaries for feeds and cards
🚀 Quick start
Install Lunet as a global .NET tool:
dotnet tool install --global lunet
Create and serve a site:
mkdir mysite && cd mysite
lunet init
lunet serve
Your site is live at http://localhost:4000. Edit pages and watch changes reload instantly.
Build for production:
lunet build
Output goes to .lunet/build/www.
🎨 Themes
Install a theme from any GitHub repository:
# In config.scriban
extend "owner/repo@v1.0"
Themes layer on top of your site - layouts, includes, and static files merge seamlessly.
📖 Documentation
Full user guide and module reference at lunet.io.
🪪 License
This software is released under the BSD-2-Clause license.
🤗 Author
Alexandre Mutel aka xoofx
