https://github.com/akashacms/akasharender
Core of AkashaCMS, focused primarily on rendering files for static websites
https://github.com/akashacms/akasharender
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Core of AkashaCMS, focused primarily on rendering files for static websites
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/akashacms/akasharender
- Owner: akashacms
- License: apache-2.0
- Created: 2016-03-31T00:00:58.000Z (over 10 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2026-01-11T14:48:38.000Z (6 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-01-11T17:59:15.437Z (6 months ago)
- Topics: markdown, nodejs, static-site-generator, static-website-generation, static-website-generator
- Language: JavaScript
- Homepage: https://akashacms.com
- Size: 5.83 MB
- Stars: 2
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 58
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
- Agents: AGENTS.md
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README
# AkashaRender - Rendering engine for AkashaCMS
AkashaCMS is a collection of static website generation tools. The primary purpose is publishing websites, but a related set of tools called AkashaEPUB allows one to generate EPUB documents.
AkashaRender is the core tool for AkashaCMS/AkashaEPUB.
The available commands are:
```
Usage: akasharender [options] [command]
Options:
-V, --version output the version number
-h, --help display help for command
Commands:
copy-assets Copy assets into output directory
document Show information about a document
render-document Render a document into output directory
render [options] Render a site into output directory
explain Explain a cache query
watch Track changes to files in a site, and rebuild
anything that changes
gh-pages-publish [options] Publish a site using Github Pages. Takes the
rendering destination, adds it into a branch,
and pushes that to Github
config Print a site configuration
docdirs List the documents directories in a site
configuration
assetdirs List the assets directories in a site
configuration
partialdirs List the partials directories in a site
configuration
layoutsdirs List the layouts directories in a site
configuration
documents List the documents in a site configuration
docinfo Show information about a document in a site
configuration
tags List the tags
search [options] Search for documents
assets List the assets in a site configuration
assetinfo Show information about an asset in a site
configuration
layouts List the layouts in a site configuration
layoutinfo Show information about a layout in a site
configuration
partials List the partials in a site configuration
partialinfo Show information about a partial in a site
configuration
help [command] display help for command
```
The configuration file parameter, _configFN_, is the filename for a JavaScript file that sets up an AkashaRender configuration object.
The typical usage for the commands is with these `package.json` scripts:
```
"scripts": {
"prebuild": "akasharender copy-assets config.js",
"build": "akasharender render config.js",
"deploy": "cd out && rsync --archive --delete --verbose ./ user-name@example.com:example.com/ "
}
```
The model is to have several input directories, containing content and assets for the resulting website, and one output directory for the rendered website (or EPUB). The possible input directories are:
* `assets` -- Files that are simply copied and require no rendering
* `documents` -- Files that may require rendering, such as converting LESS to CSS, or Markdown/AsciiDoc to HTML
* `partials` -- Template snippets that can be used anywhere in a document
* `layouts` -- Page layout templates
The `prebuild` step uses `copy-assets` to copy files from the assets directory to the rendering directory. The `build` step then renders content from the documents directory to the rendering directory.
In this case the rendering directory is `out`, and the `deploy` step uses `rsync` to upload that directory to a webserver.
AkashaCMS plugins extend the capabilities of the system.
For more information see:
* Project website: https://akashacms.com
* Source for project website: https://github.com/akashacms/akashacms-website
* Example repository: https://github.com/akashacms/akashacms-example
* Website matching the example: https://example.akashacms.com/