Cosmodrome

Build a static website and a Gemini capsule in parallel

Quick Setup

Install Rust

Clone the repo git clone https://github.com/yaky-dev/cosmodrome

Go to the cloned repo cd cosmodrome

Build Cosmodrome cargo build --release

Go back up one level cd ..

Create a directory for the new web site and gemini capsule mkdir new-site-capsule

Go to the directory cd new-site-capsule

Copy Cosmodrome's executable to current directory cp ../cosmodrome/target/release/cosmodrome . (or, you can just call Cosmodrome from this path, I find it easier to copy)

Initialize the source ./cosmodrome init

Build the static website and the gemini capsule ./cosmodrome build

All of the website files are in srv/www, and all of the gemini capsule files are in srv/gemini

The only thing left is to host both

Structure

root
|- src
|  |- _wrapper.gmi
|  |- _wrapper.html
|  |- index.gmi
|  \- ... all other files
|- srv
|  |-gemini
|  \-www
|- gemini
\- www

src contains the site/capsule source, including pages, images, and other files. All files that start with _ are ignored. Source pages have the .gmi extension and use gemtext markup (similar to Markdown, but simpler). Links to images are automatically converted to HTML img tags for Web pages.

Every source page gets wrapped in _wrapper.gmi (for Gemini) or _wrapper.html (for Web). Wrapper must have a line <!-- CONTENT -->, which is replaced by the page content at build time. This setup is similar to how _Layout.cshtml works for ASP.NET MVC pages.

srv contains distributable files, gemini for gemini capsule, www for website.

www contains extra files for the Web, such as CSS, JS or any Web-specific content. It gets copied to dist/www at the end of the build. gemini contains extra files for Gemini. It gets copied to dist/gemini at the end of the build.