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 if you're stuck for ideas. The `theme` hashref can also include Bootstrap's non-colour SASS options. See . 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. `copyright` *(required)* 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. `sponsor` Hashref containing project sponsorship info. The "html" key is required. The "href" key is optional. sponsor: html: "Please sponsor us! Blah blah blah." href: https://paypal.example/foo-bar-baz `menu` 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 `

` tags in HTML, etc. Menu Configuration 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 `` or `` tag added to the document's ``. 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: Generated this site: More Examples * * * * BUGS Please report any bugs to . AUTHOR Toby Inkster . 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.