Hotdog

Hotdog is a static site generator powered by Bun. Markdown in, HTML out, all beef, no filler.

Why?

Most static site generators solve problems I don't have. I wanted something dead simple for this site — no plugin ecosystem, no config sprawl, no build step that outlasts the writing. So I built one.

Features

• The entire build script is just over 100 lines of TypeScript.
• Zero npm dependencies. Leans entirely on Bun's built-in Markdown, YAML, file I/O, and shell APIs.
• YAML frontmatter for title, layout, description, and date.
• Two layout templates: post for dated articles with syntax highlighting, page for everything else.
• ${{variable}} replacements in plain HTML. No template DSL.
• Navigation configured in YAML, rendered with active link detection.
• CSS and static files copied straight to the output directory.
• Auto-generated index pages for content subdirectories, with links to every page in the directory.

How it works

1. Clean the dist/ directory.
2. Copy static assets.
3. Scan content/ for Markdown files.
4. Parse frontmatter, render Markdown to HTML, slot it into the matching template.
5. Generate index pages for any subdirectory that doesn't have its own index.md.
6. Done.

What it doesn't do

No dev server, live reload, plugins, themes, or client-side JavaScript. Sometimes you just want the hot dog.