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PRPL

PRPL is a lightweight library for building fast static sites. It does two things:

• Interpolate your content into HTML files
• Maximize your site's runtime speed with the PRPL pattern

Features

• Tiny HTML-based API
• Zero configuration
• Zero or near-zero module dependencies
• CLI, CJS and ESM module interfaces
• Define your own template syntax
• Ship no client JavaScript
• Works on Linux, MacOS and Windows

Why?

All the static site generators I have tried have one or more of these problems:

• Built on an underlying framework like React, Vue, etc.
• Relies on complex build tools like Webpack, Babel, etc.
• Depends on a massive tree of modules that force constant maintenance
• Has interfaces, source code and documentation that cannot be understood in one sitting
• Requires that your site source be organized in a way that looks nothing like your output
• Forces a huge leap from hello world to a real world implementation

PRPL is my answer to these gripes.

Usage

PRPL requires Node LTS or greater.

To clone the minimal starter and run it locally, run:

npx -y create-prpl@latest

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