What is Mantis?

Mantis is a simple static site generator powered by Node.js. It generates pages with EJS that can be either Markdown, HTML or EJS themselves.

Source code

Gettings Started

To install mantis run:

npm i -g mantis-ssg

or run the cli directly with:

npx mantis <command>

How to create a site

To create a new site, open the folder to start your project and run:

mantis init

To build such site, run:

mantis build

If you wish to open a live server and edit the site confortably, run:

mantis serve

The just created project will have the next folder structure:

\site
  \assets
  \layout
  \pages
  \partials
site.config.js

Commands

  Initialize a new site:

    mantis init

  Build site:

    mantis build

  Serve site:

    mantis build


  Options

     -p, --port <port-number>        Port to use for local server (default: 3000)
     -h, --help                      Display this help text
     -v, --version                   Display Mantis version

Docs

Full documentation