A simple and powerful content-driven static site generator.
Cecil, a simple and powerful content-driven static site generator.
Cecil is a CLI application that merges plain text files (written in Markdown), images and Twig templates to generate a static website.
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Quick Start
Read the Quick Start documentation page.
Create and deploy a blog site:
Features
- No database, no server, no dependency: performance and security
- Your pages are stored in Markdown flat files with a YAML front matter
- Powered by Twig, a flexible template engine, with themes support
- Pagination, sitemap, redirections, robots.txt, taxonomies, RSS are generated automatically
- Handles and optimizes assets for you
- Download one file and run it
- Easy to deploy
Installation
Download cecil.phar from your browser or from your terminal:
curl -LO https://cecil.app/cecil.phar
Then install the binary globally:
mv cecil.phar /usr/local/bin/cecil
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/cecil
[!IMPORTANT]
PHP 8.1+ is required.
Usage
- Get help:
cecil help - Create a new website:
cecil new:site - Preview your website:
cecil serve
Contributing
See Contributing.
Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):
This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!
npx all-contributors add
npx all-contributors generate
Sponsors
License
Cecil is a free software distributed under the terms of the MIT license.
Cecil © Arnaud Ligny
Logo © Cécile Ricordeau