This week, I have a chance to create a command line tool to generate an .html file or folder from .txt file. My tool's name is shinny-ssg and it was built with C#, .Net Core 3.1 and Command Line Utils.

Features:

• generate .html files from .txt files with title
• accept folder as input path to generate .html files in the destination folder which will has the same structure as original folder
• give user the options to specify destination folder and/or stylesheet URL link

Options

How to use

• Download or clone the shinny-ssg folder to your local machine
• Use command prompt navigate to the folder netcoreapp3.1 in the shinny-ssg folder ( path shinny-ssg\bin\Debug\netcoreapp3.1)
• In the command prompt, run shinny-ssg.exe -h to see the options
• The file will be generated in the shinny-ssg\bin\Debug\netcoreapp3.1\dist folder by default or in the destination folder if specified by user.

Examples

Source folder:

Command:
shinny-ssg.exe -i C:\Users\khoit\Desktop\OSD600\Sherlock-Holmes-Selected-Stories -o ../../Destination -s https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/water.css@2/out/water.css

Destination folder

File HTML is generated with Css style

Source Code

You can find my source code in this repo: