papoGen

Let's papoGen!

papoGen - Quickly generate webpages without any web development experience!

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About

papoGen is a simple static webpage generator. You do not need any prior experience in web development to generate your webpage; the only prerequisite is a basic understanding of Markdown, JSON, and YAML. You can design your template or use any of our stock ones to generate pages of your own in little to no time at all. papoGen is developed by Toolbuddy. If you like papoGen or any of our other tools, please give us a star! If you have any problems or suggestions, please feel free to contact us or open an issue. We'd love to help you.

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Usage

使用說明 - 中文詳細版本

1. Installation

   » [sudo] npm install papogen -g

   • Manual
     • Explains each parameters that we currently support in detail.
     • See more in our example README.
2. Generation

   » papogen -s test/ -o docs/ -t papoGen -m doc

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Description

• The papoGen document (i.e., DEMO page) is generated by papoGen!
  • Uses JSON files under the folder test/
    • In test/, there are several categories of scripts, which are in their own directory.
    • Additionally, there is a README.md in each respective directory, containing explanation for the format that we support.
  • View more:
    • doc page
    • resume page
• Generated by script template
  • Use -h to list all supported scripts.
  • Use papogen -c <script>/<format_1>/<format_2>/... -o <output> to generate using our template files.
    • <script> is the blue one. (in -h output message)
    • <format> is the grey one. (in -h output message)
      • Version after 0.0.12 support several templates specified by using / to separate each format.
      • You can use json/all to get all currently supported copy to target the output directory.
• Check our example/ to see more!

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papoGen Commands

• Command Format

   » papogen -s [--src] <src_path> \
           -o [--out] <out_path> \
           -t [--title] <title> \
           -g [--gen] <type> \
           -m [--model] <name> \
           --theme <theme> \
           -h [--help]

  Option	Value	Description
  -s [--src]	URL	The URL of the source files' folder
  -o [--out]	URL	The URL of the destination files' folder
  -t [--title]	STRING	The title you want to show on webpage
  -g [--gen]	md / json / yaml	The type of your source files
  -m [--model]	md_doc* / doc / resume / papogen+	The model template you want to generate with
  --theme	paper# / papogen+	The theme you want to render on your wabpage
  -h [--help]	NONE	Show papoGen helping manual

  • md_doc*: The only model supports Markdown.
  • paper#: Default theme
  • papogen+: The only theme supports papogen template. Notice that if you have already given the template as papogen (i.e., -m papogen), we will also set the theme as papogen (i.e., --theme papogen) automatically.

Format: Markdown (Recommended!)

• Use Markdown format as configuration
• Different from the following format
• Generate from Markdown files
• Support multiple Markdown files as input
• Supporting model: md_doc
• Example command

  » papogen -s test/md -o docs/md -g md -m md_doc -t Graph\ Theory

Format: JSON (Default)

• Use JSON format as configuration.

• Example command: See more in here.

  # Use directly (from source code)
  » node main.js -s test/ -o docs/ -t papoGen
  # By installation
  » papogen -s test/ -o docs/ -t papoGen -m doc

• After specifying the src directory, PaperCSS will fetch all the JSON files under src and use the filename for each file as "tag" in output. the

• papoGen will base on the input and generate your content (see more detail below)

  • Currently support: text (see the source directory: test/ as input, and destination directory: docs/ as output)

Format: YAML

• Use YAML format as configuration.

• Some formats are defined in JSON.

• Example command:

  # Use directly (from source code)
  » node main.js -s test/ -o docs/ -g yaml -t papoGen
  # By installation
  » papogen -s test/ -o docs/ -t papoGen -m doc -g yaml

• After specifying the src/ directory, PaperCSS will fetch all files in JSON format under src/ and use the filename for each as "tag" in output.

• papoGen will base on the input and generate your content (see more detail below)

  • Currently support: text (see the source directory: test/ as input, and destination directory: docs/ as output)

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DEMO

• Example( 中文介紹 ) - 2018 Digital Ocean Meetup, 2018 ModernWeb
  • papoGen - 使用說明
• Example: Generated by papoGen format
  • JSON - doc
  • JSON - resume
  • JSON - papogen
  • YAML - doc
  • YAML - resume
• Example: Generated directly from Markdown format
  • From Markdown - md_doc
    • Support "MathJax" & "Table of content"!
  • Graph Theory Tutorial:
    • ch3
    • ch4
  • simulation project - 802.11 wireless illustration
  • gRPC practice & learn

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papoGen Wiki

For more information about papoGen, you can refer our wiki in this repository.

CHANGELOG

• See here.

• Screenshot

  Version	Table of Vontent	Main Page
  v0.2.2

Workflow

• See here

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WIP

If you want to contribute to papoGen, use git clone with --recursive to clone the entire project (or use git submodule update to update your old version).

• papoGen.css
  • Our new web UI - papoGen.css is creating now!
  • Introduce a new theme and template into papoGen.

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Authors

• Kevin Cyu, kevinbird61@gmail.com
• David Lu, yungshenglu1994@gmail.com