Jen

Static site generator and prototyping tool based on Jinja2.

Install

Jen is available in the Python Package Index:

pip install jen

Overview

Create some Jinja templates in a directory, alongside the desired static content. Example:

site/
    _base.html
    index.html
    about.html
    404.html
    robots.txt
    css/
        theme.css

Run the development server while you create your content:

jen run site

The content will be accessible in your browser on localhost:8000. Try some pretty urls:

/
/about
/css/theme.css

A few points to notice:

• HTML templates are accessed without the .html extension.
• / maps to index.html. Any sub-directory with an index.html can also be accessed like this.
• _base.html is accessible in the Jinja environment but will not be exposed because it starts with underscore _.
• If you access a missing page, the server will render 404.html for you.

After you're done, build your static site with:

jen build site dist

The static content will be generated in the specified dist directory.

You can now serve the build with your favorite web server (if well configured). An easy one for testing (zero-configuration) is http-server from the npm package manager:

npm install -g http-server
http-server dist