Kobo

A hugo-like markdown website/blog builder + server

Features

• Built with Flask
• Native support for markdown using katex
• Lots of out-of-the-box functionality
• Extensive customization options and extendibility

Installation

1. Run python3 -m pip install kobo-md
2. Install katex via npm install katex

See dylwall.com for a sample site built using kobo :)

Usage

• To start a new project, simply enter the target directory and run python3 -m katex new.
• To compile markdown files into html snippets, run python3 -m katex compile.
• To run the server, run python3 -m katex server from the project directory.

Adding Content

• To create a page on your site, just make a markdown file in the content directory.
• By default, the route to your page will be the relative path to your file from the content directory.
  • Exception: If your filename is index.md, the route of the page will be the parent directory of the file. For example, content/my-directory/index.md will be routed to /my-directory.
  • If an index.md file is not present in a directory, an index page (but not file) for the directory will automatically be generated.
• By default, the title of your page will be the filename.

Markdown Options

• You can override the default route and title of your page by setting them in your markdown file's header.
• You can also choose what template you want to use for your page in the header (see "Templates" for more info).
• You can choose to not publish a file by setting the draft option. Here's an example markdown file with these options set:

---
title: My Page
route: /my-page
draft: false
template: homepage.html
---

# Welcome to My Page!

Templates

• When pages in kobo are processed, they are inserted into Jinja files with a specific format.
• Index files use the index.html template and all other files use the page.html template by default. You can specify which template to use for a page in the markdown header.
• Template files are stored in the templates directory.

Running

• To start up a server, just run python3 -m kobo server!
• Run python3 -m kobo -h

Custom Configuration and Gunicorn

You can run the kobo flask app in your own scripts by importing kobo.server.create_server:

from kobo.server import create_server
from pathlib import Path

kwargs = {
    # Add your desired keyword arguments here
    'load_from_frozen': True,
    'default_title': "Dylan's Blog"
}

app = create_server(Path('/my/blog/root/directory'), **kwargs)

app.run('0.0.0.0', port=8080)

Alternatively, you can run kobo using gunicorn instead. All you have to do is omit the last line, and run gunicorn -w 2 --bind 0.0.0.0:8000 'main:app'.