Week-1

Anirudh’s Progress

• Built the markdown to HTML renderer using the Goldmark library
• Set up a web server to preview the rendered content locally
• Implemented a front matter YAML parser to retrieve page metadata
• Designed a reusable system of partials to build page layouts
• Implemented a recursive renderer for the content/ and static/ directories

What's next?

• Restructure the project
• Refactor and improve the live reload functionality
• Implement the post tagging system

Adhesh’s Progress

• Migrated to Cobra for better CLI integration.
• Implemented important flags for serving a local HTTP server (---serve), and to explicitly mention the port to use (---addr).
• Implemented Real-Time Directory/File change watcher using fsnotify, and Hot-Reload system for reserving updated files instantaneously.
• Cleaned and sanitised some parts of the codebase.
• Included early optimizations to some functions of the codebase using goroutines and sync operations.

What's next?

• Making main.go the entry point for the code.
• Fix issues with the watcher, and clean up the goroutine issues.
• Try studying about parallelizing code functions, and implementing it.
• Add a developer mode/flag for profiling the performance of the application (---dev)
• Look into Huge theme compatibility.
• Try integrating JavaScript in templates.

Hegde’s Progress

• Switched to automatic filename parsing
• Implementing Draft Posts
• Complete CSS styling
• Cleaned up unnecessary post rendering

Whats Next:

• JS injection as plugins into pages and individual posts
• Draft post rendering
• Chronological Feed for posts

Nathan’s Progress

• Setup CI using GitHub actions which builds and deploys the SSG to gh-pages
• Setup robots.txt to (currently set to prevent indexing until we reach a v1.0 release)
• Implemented sitemap.xml to tell search engines how our site is structured
• Fixed baseURL it now, uses absolute paths from root / when loading stylesheets

What's next?

• SEO optimization (verify semantic HTML generation)
• OGP tags in page headers