Siteit might sound like a tool that generates citations for you, but it is not.
What is Siteit?
Siteit is an open-source command-line tool that converts text files into HTML files.
Steps to Install
Access Siteit on GitHub by clicking here.
Use
git
toclone
the repo to local machine.Navigate to the cloned directory using command-line and execute the following commands:
npm install
npm link
- Now test out the tool:
siteit -h
Using siteit
with -h
or --help
option displays the usage manual. If an error message, is displayed instead try running siteit as follows:
node ./index.js -h
Running either siteit -h
or node ./index.js
should yield the following result:
SiteIt - USAGE MANUAL
usage:
siteit [flag]
siteit [flag] [source_file]
siteit [flag] [source_directory]
example:
siteit -v
siteit -i source_file.txt
siteit -i ./source_directory
Common SiteIt Flag Options
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--version | -v Outputs tool name and version information
--help | -h Outputs Siteit command usage manual
--input | -i Accepts a source file or a directory containing
files as input, and outputs an HTML file for
each file supplied
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*** END OF MANUAL ***
- The
--input
option is the one that accepts a file or a directory containing.txt
files as a parameter and converts them into static webpages. The generated files can be viewed in the application'sdist
directory. If the source is a directory, anindex.html
file will be available with links to all the newly generated HTML pages.
Click here to see the resulting static website.
More information on tool usage is available on GitHub.
PS
This is the first release of Siteit.
Stay tuned, as more features will be added in subsequent releases.
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