Amethyst

A minimal, responsive blog post skeleton site based on Cobalt. All static pages, no Javascript, and minimal CSS from the small Pure.css library (<30 KB total, <10 KB gzipped).

Demo

https://psastras.github.io/amethyst/

Usage

Dependencies

You must first install Cobalt. Make sure that cobalt is on your PATH. Assuming you have Rust and cargo installed, just run:

cargo install cobalt-bin

To create your own site, clone this repo, then:

npm install
npm run watch

This should serve the site on localhost:8080. You can add posts in the src/posts directory. Root pages can be added by creating markdown files in the src directory (see src/about.md for an example). To add a link to a page in the navigation bar, add an item to the site_links entry in src/_data/meta.yml.

All changes should automatically reload in your broweser on change (note that for this to work you must have Javascript enabled - however the final built files do not require Javascript).

To create the static files, run:

npm run build

The output files should be written to the dist folder.

Usage with Github Pages

This is intended for use with Github pages (although static files can be deployed on your host of choice). See the .travis.yml configuration file. You will need to edit the last line of the build_script entry:

 - >-
    echo "base_path: \"/amethyst\"" > ./src/_data/meta.yml

Replace amethyst with your Github repo pathname (ie. foo.github.io/<pathname>) - if this is a Github Org page, the basepath should be empty.

In order to publish the built files, you must provide the environment variable GITHUB_TOKEN in the Travis build, see here for more information on creating a personal token.

License

Licensed under the MIT License, see the LICENSE file for more information.