macana

Static site generator for Obsidian Vault

  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4
  5. 5
  6. 6
  7. 7
  8. 8
  9. 9
  10. 10
  11. 11
  12. 12
  13. 13
  14. 14
  15. 15
  16. 16
  17. 17
  18. 18
  19. 19
  20. 20
  21. 21
  22. 22
  23. 23
  24. 24
  25. 25
  26. 26
  27. 27
  28. 28
  29. 29
  30. 30
  31. 31
  32. 32
  33. 33
  34. 34
  35. 35
  36. 36
  37. 37
  38. 38
  39. 39
  40. 40
  41. 41
  42. 42
  43. 43
  44. 44
  45. 45
  46. 46
  47. 47
  48. 48
  49. 49
  50. 50
  51. 51
  52. 52
  53. 53
  54. 54
  55. 55
  56. 56
  57. 57
  58. 58
  59. 59
  60. 60
  61. 61
  62. 62
  63. 63
  64. 64
  65. 65
  66. 66
  67. 67
  68. 68
  69. 69
  70. 70
  71. 71
  72. 72
  73. 73
  74. 74
  75. 75
  76. 76
  77. 77
  78. 78
  79. 79
  80. 80
  81. 81
  82. 82
  83. 83
  84. 84
  85. 85
  86. 86
  87. 87
  88. 88
  89. 89
  90. 90
  91. 91
  92. 92
  93. 93
  94. 94
  95. 95
  96. 96
  97. 97
  98. 98
  99. 99
  100. 100
  101. 101
  102. 102
  103. 103
  104. 104
  105. 105
  106. 106
  107. 107
  108. 108
  109. 109
  110. 110
  111. 111
  112. 112
  113. 113
  114. 114
  115. 115
  116. 116
  117. 117
  118. 118
  119. 119
  120. 120
  121. 121
  122. 122
  123. 123
  124. 124
  125. 125
  126. 126
  127. 127
  128. 128
  129. 129
  130. 130
  131. 131
  132. 132
  133. 133
  134. 134
## Input options

### `input.path`

- Type: `string` (file path)
- CLI: First positional argument
- Required

Path to a Vault (source directory includes documents).
Path needs to be relative and resolved from the config file.

## Output options

### `output.path`

- Type: `string` (file path)
- CLI: `--out <PATH>` option
- Required

Path to the output directory.
Path needs to be relative and resolved from the config file.

### `output.precompress`

- Type: `boolean`
- CLI: `--precompress` flag

Whether to compress `.html`, `.css` and `.js` files into `.<ext>.gz`, `.<ext>.br` and `.<ext>.zst` files.
For example, if an output directory contains `index.html`, Macana also generates
- `index.html.gz` (Gzip)
- `index.html.br` (Brotli)
- `index.html.zst` (ZStandard)

inside the same directory.

## Website metadata options

### `metadata.name`

- Type: `string`
- CLI: `--name <TEXT>` option
- Required

Website name, title.
`<title>` and a title section in a header uses this text.

### `metadata.favicon.svg`

- Type: `string` (file path)
- CLI: `--favicon-svg <PATH>` option

Path to a SVG file to use as a favicon.
Path needs to be relative and resolved from the config file.

### `metadata.favicon.png`

- Type: `string` (file path)
- CLI: `--favicon-png <PATH>` option

Path to a PNG file to use as a favicon.
Path needs to be relative and resolved from the config file.

### `metadata.copyright`

- Type: `string`
- CLI: `--copyright <TEXT>` option
- Required

Copyright text to show in the generated website.

### `metadata.logoImage`

- Type: `string` (file path)
- CLI: `--logo-image <PATH>` option

Path to an image file to use as a website logo.
Path needs to be relative and resolved from the config file.

## Document options
### `documents.defaultLanguage`

- Type: `string`
- CLI: `--lang <TEXT>` option
- Default: `"en"`

Default language for the generated website.

### `documents.languages.<directory>`

- Type: `{ title: string; lang: string }`

If a directory name matches to `<directory>`, the directory is treated as a language directory: the directory itself and its contents have different language than the parent one.

### `documents.resolveShortestPathWhenPossible`

- Type: `boolean`
- CLI: `--shortest-path-when-possible` flag

Enable support for Obsidian's "[[Ambiguous path resolution#Shortest path when possible|Shortest path when possible]]" link resolution.

### `documents.title.keepExtension`

- Type: `boolean`
- CLI: `--keep-ext` flag

By default, Macana use filename without file extension part as a document title.
If this option is enabled, Macana does not trim the file extension part.

## Markdown options

### `markdown.enabled`

- Type: `boolean`
- Default: `true`

Enable parsing of Markdown documents.
You can disable this from CLI via `--disable-markdown` flag.

### `markdown.yamlFrontmatter`

- Type: `boolean`
- CLI: `--markdown-frontmatter` flag

Enable parsing of YAML frontmatter in Markdown documents.

## JSONCanvas options

### `jsonCanvas.enabled`

- Type: `boolean`
- Default: `true`

Enable parsing of JSONCanvas documents.
You can disable this from CLI via `--disable-jsoncanvas` flag.