(merge) fix: prevent panic due to frontmatter absence, remove baseURL…

…, static links updation

README.md

@@ -1,7 +1,3 @@
-# Static Site Generator
-
-Checkout this doc-page [rendered](https://ssg-test-org.github.io/docs.html) using our ssg
-
 ## Directory structure
 
 The ssg currently requires the following directory structure
@@ -66,7 +62,7 @@ The layout files can access the following rendered data from the markdown files:
 
 ## Notes
 
-1. Images: To add images, add it to the 'static/' folder or a subdirectory under it. Use "static/[imagename.format]" as the image link format in the markdown files.
+1. Images: To add images, add it to the 'static/' folder or a subdirectory under it. Use "/static/[imagename.format]" as the image link format in the markdown files.
 
 2. CSS: CSS can be added in the following ways:
 
@@ -95,6 +91,7 @@ navbar:
   - posts
 
 baseURL: http://localhost:8000/
+# Replace this with the actual canonical-url of your site.
 
 # baseURL tells search-engines (SEO), web-crawlers (robots.txt) so people can discover your site on the internet. 
 # It's also embeded in your sitemap / atom feed and can be used to change metadata about your site. 

cmd/ssg/main.go

@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ import (
 	"log"
 	"net/http"
 	"os"
-	"regexp"
 	"slices"
 	"strings"
 
@@ -59,11 +58,10 @@ func (g *Generator) draftChecker() {
 func (g *Generator) RenderSite(addr string) {
 	// Creating the "rendered" directory if not present
 	err := os.MkdirAll("rendered/", 0750)
-        if err != nil {
-                g.ErrorLogger.Fatal(err)
-        }
+	if err != nil {
+		g.ErrorLogger.Fatal(err)
+	}
 
-	g.replaceBaseURL(addr)
 	g.parseConfig()
 	g.readMdDir("content/")
 	g.parseRobots()
@@ -128,30 +126,7 @@ func (g *Generator) RenderSite(addr string) {
 		g.ErrorLogger.Fatal(err)
 	}
 }
-func (g *Generator) replaceBaseURL(addr string) {
-	configFile, err := os.ReadFile("layout/config.yml")
-	if err != nil {
-		g.ErrorLogger.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	var config LayoutConfig
-	if err := yaml.Unmarshal(configFile, &config); err != nil {
-		g.ErrorLogger.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	config.BaseURL = "http://localhost:" + addr + "/"
 
-	updatedConfig, err := yaml.Marshal(config)
-	if err != nil {
-		g.ErrorLogger.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	if err = os.WriteFile("layout/config.yml", updatedConfig, 0666); err != nil {
-		g.ErrorLogger.Fatal(err)
-	}
-}
-
-// link sitemap at the end of robots.txt
 func (g *Generator) parseRobots() {
 	tmpl, err := template.ParseFiles("layout/robots.txt")
 	if err != nil {
@@ -219,7 +194,11 @@ func (g *Generator) parseMarkdownContent(filecontent string) (Frontmatter, strin
 	   markdown content
 	   --- => markdown divider and not to be touched while yaml parsing
 	*/
-	frontmatterSplit := strings.Split(filecontent, "---")[1]
+	splitContents := strings.Split(filecontent, "---")
+	frontmatterSplit := ""
+	if len(splitContents) > 1 {
+		frontmatterSplit = splitContents[1]
+	}
 
 	if frontmatterSplit != "" {
 		// Parsing YAML frontmatter
@@ -235,8 +214,6 @@ func (g *Generator) parseMarkdownContent(filecontent string) (Frontmatter, strin
 		markdown = filecontent
 	}
 
-	g.generateAbsoluteStaticLinks(&markdown)
-
 	// Parsing markdown to HTML
 	var parsedMarkdown bytes.Buffer
 	if err := goldmark.Convert([]byte(markdown), &parsedMarkdown); err != nil {
@@ -264,13 +241,6 @@ func (g *Generator) parseConfig() {
 	}
 }
 
-// Make links to static assets load from root dir /
-func (g *Generator) generateAbsoluteStaticLinks(mdBody *string) {
-	re := regexp.MustCompile(`static\/`)
-	absLink := "/" + "static/"
-	*mdBody = re.ReplaceAllString(*mdBody, absLink)
-}
-
 // Parse all the ".html" layout files in the layout/ directory
 func (g *Generator) parseLayoutFiles() *template.Template {
 	// Parsing all files in the layout/ dir which match the "*.html" pattern

content/docs.md

@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ The layout files can access the following rendered data from the markdown files:
 
 ## Notes
 
-1. Images: To add images, add it to the 'static/' folder or a subdirectory under it. Use "static/[imagename.format]" as the image link format in the markdown files.
+1. Images: To add images, add it to the 'static/' folder or a subdirectory under it. Use "/static/[imagename.format]" as the image link format in the markdown files.
 
 2. CSS: CSS can be added in the following ways:
 

content/index.md

@@ -4,6 +4,6 @@ title: Home
 ---
 
 ### Henlo!
-A computer science student and tech enthusiast. Welcome to my home on the internet.
+This is the documentation for the SSG
 
-![demo-image](static/plane.jpg)
+![demo-image](/static/plane.jpg)

content/posts/test_nofrontmatter.md

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+This is a file without frontmatter

layout/config.yml

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 navbar:
     - index
-    - about
     - docs
     - posts
-baseURL: http://localhost:8000/
+baseURL: https://ssg-test-org.github.io/