Gustwind

Gustwind is a Deno powered website creator that allows component oriented development of large scale sites. Conceptually it's split as follows:

  • Development mode lets you preview the site and modify page definitions to commit later
  • Production mode generates pure static HTML with CSS inlined to the files
  • Components defined with a JSON or HTML based component abstraction included allow you to extract shared markup and bind data to it
  • Data sources define how your data is fetched. At page level, it can then be connected and bound to components.
  • Route definition binds it all together.

Please see the documentation to learn more about the concepts.

Getting started

There is a simple GitHub template that has basic features set up. It renders the project readme as index.html and you should expand/change the project to your liking.

Data flow

Gustwind accepts TypeScript, Markdown, JSON or HTML definitions including Twind (Tailwind) classes and emits HTML and JavaScript.

Gustwind data flow

It's possible to customize the input formats and it can load data from asynchronous sources, say GraphQL APIs, so Gustwind can be used with headless content APIs.

Example sites

Given Gustwind is still in a rapid development phase, the APIs change every once in a while. The source of this site is the most up to date resource and I've listed other examples below:

  • Tailspin was an experimental site generator built with partially the same technology. In this project, the ideas have been largely re-implemented and taken further. In some ways Tailspin went further, though, as it implemented component level introspection (types) and editors while allowing JSX syntax.
  • Antwar was a React based static site generator. The experiences with Antwar over years have been put to good use in this project.