Package: lightwait
light-waitis a blogging platform to produce light (as in features), minimal wait (as in fast to download) web content from markdown.Light-wait produces the bare minimum blog content from markdown files:overview and tag (category) indexesRSS feedconfiguration file to simplify customizationHere is an example screen-shot of blog content:UsageUsage: lightwait [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

Options:
  --debug / --no-debug
  --help    Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  export    Export markdown of content to given TARGET_DIR
  generate  Create html and rss content within given DOCROOT
  post      Create a blog post using FILE The initial lines in the FILE...
  post-all  Create a blog post for each file in SRC_DIR The initial lines...Quick StartInstall with pip$ pip install lightwaitUse light-wait to generate blog content from existing markdown. Create a blog post from a single markdown
file, providing optional name, description and tags, or point to a directory of markdown files and create
posts from each file.In this example, a post is created from a markdown file about opensource, and it is tagged 'software':$ lightwait post example/opensource.md -n opensourced -d 'How Light-wait was open-sourced' -t softwareIn this example, a post is created for each markdown file in the given directorymydir.$ lightwait post-all mydir/Light-wait creates the static site content at the configureddocrootdirectory, which by default
is at/usr/local/var/www/.
A python web server can be used to verify the content:$ cd /usr/local/var/www/
 $ python3 -m http.serverPost metadataEach post is assigned the following metadata, either derived from the markdown file or overridden by
command line arguments:title: default to markdown file create date and a hash of the file namedescription: default to first non-comment line of the markdown filetags: default togeneraldate: default to markdown file create dateAdditionally, a markdown file may contain this metadata as a comment at the start of the file:[//]: # (tags:['general'])Configuration OptionsLight-wait is designed with customization in mind. When Light-wait is first run, a directory
is created under the user home directory. This is called.lightwaitand it will hold
configuration, CSS, templates and imported markdown and metadata:$ cd ~/.lightwait
 $ ls
 lightwait.ini	markdown	metadata	template	www
 $These files will only be copied if this initial set does not exist- you can freely modify
them, or if you wish to start over, remove them for Light-wait to re-initialize.The most important user-defined configurations are held in thelightwait.inifile.This file contains the following properties, used to customize your static site:url = http://localhost:8080/
blogTitle = title
blogSubTitle = subtitle
blogTagLine = tagLine
blogAuthor = author
blogAuthorEmail = author@example.com
blogLang = en
copyright = &copy; name date
docroot = /usr/local/var/www/lightwait.iniis a python INI file (see configparser), containing a default configuration section and the
possibility to have multiple overriding configuration sections. Light-wait uses thelwsection and inherits all
defaults. You can configure the defaults for your site and override specific properties based on how
you wish to deploy your static content.An example of using an override property is to be able to test locally but deploy remotely:[DEFAULT]url=http://localhost:8080/[lw]url=http://some.domain/Refer to theexampledirectory for a fully configured INI.Feel free to further customize the static content output by changing the templates (jinja2  format) or
css. These can be found here:~/.lightwait/template/base.index  # Common including footer
 ~/.lightwait/template/main.index  # for main index.html
 ~/.lightwait/template/tag.index   # for tag-SOMETAG.html 
 ~/.lightwait/template/post.index  # for each post
 ~/.lightwait/www/css/main.cssThe static site content can be re-generated from the posts at any time using thegeneratecommand.
This has an optional docroot argument, allowing you to override the configuration setting:$ lightwait generateRunning local web server ExampleThe following is an example of running lighttpd, a fast and lightweight web server,
and generating web content from markdown files, using Light-wait.To install lighttpd on MacOS using homebrew$ brew update 
 $ brew install lighttpd
 $ brew services start lighttpdThis installs a default configuration file/usr/local/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.confand a docroot at/usr/local/var/wwwThen open a browser tohttp://localhost:8080/Exporting your markdownYou can export all of your markdown content to a directory using theexportcommand. This additionally
will add post metadata, such as any description or tags, as markdown comments at the top of each file.
Here is an example of exporting all markdown data to the directoryexportdir:$ lightwait export ./exportdirTool Chain and FrameworksThe following frameworks and tools enable Light-wait:https://python-markdown.github.io/https://jinja.palletsprojects.com/en/2.11.x/https://feedgen.kiesow.be/https://palletsprojects.com/p/click/https://github.com/psf/blackhttps://shields.io/https://pypi.org/Details are provided under theexamplemarkdownHow to ContributeClone repo and create a new branch:$ git checkout https://github.com/mechregard/light-wait -b name_for_new_branch.Make changes and test withpytestandtox(for testing on different versions of python)Submit Pull Request with comprehensive description of changesDonationsThis is free, open-source software.Image credit goes to:https://dauntlessfightclub.net/