ionide/Fornax

Fornax is a static site generator built with F\# and .NET 8 that processes various content types such as Markdown, Sass, and Less into HTML and CSS. It provides a CLI for building and watching sites with live browser refresh, supporting custom loaders and generators for flexible content transformation. The system includes a default blog template with pagination and mobile-friendly layouts, along with sample scripts demonstrating configuration and asset processing.

The samples/loaders directory now includes two new F\# script samples: customloader.fsx, which demonstrates how to inject global site configuration values, and postloader.fsx, which shows how to parse Markdown posts with front-matter metadata (title, author, published date, tags) and convert them to HTML using Markdig, including error handling for individual file loads.

samples/loaders · high confidence

The samples/style area now includes a new fonts.scss file that defines @font-face rules for Noto Sans (regular, bold, italic, and bold italic) using various web font formats, and a new style.less file containing a basic CSS rule for a .div element.

samples/style · high confidence

A new sample JavaScript file (sampleJsFile.js) has been added to the samples directory, containing a basic variable assignment.

samples/js · high confidence

The Fornax static site generator now includes its core CLI implementation (Fornax.fs), providing commands for building, watching (with configurable ports), and scaffolding new sites via templates. Watch mode features live browser refresh over WebSockets and clears the generator cache on file changes. The tooling adds FSI (F\# Scripting Interactive) reference resolution (FSIRefs.fs) to support dynamic loader and generator evaluation, including logic to detect .NET SDK/runtime versions and resolve assembly paths. Additionally, the web server now supports serving .webp images, and console output is color-coded for information, errors, and success messages.

src/Fornax · high confidence

The core model layer now includes a comprehensive set of discriminated union types representing CSS properties (such as Flex, Grid, Border, and Margin) within the new Model module. This change establishes the foundational data structures required to represent style attributes in the application's internal model, enabling subsequent components to utilize these typed definitions for rendering and configuration.

src/Fornax.Core · high confidence

A new sample file (samples/config.fsx) has been added that demonstrates how to configure global generators within the application. This example shows how to define a configuration object specifying various generators for processing different file types, including LESS to CSS, SCSS to CSS, Markdown posts to HTML, static files, and an index page generation triggered once.

samples · high confidence

The samples/generators directory now includes several new generator scripts that demonstrate how to process different content types. The staticfile generator reads and outputs raw file content, while the Sass and Less generators invoke external compilers (sass and dotless) to transform stylesheets. Additionally, a post generator is provided which loads post data, renders it into HTML, and optionally injects a WebSocket script for live browser refresh, controlled by a disableLiveRefresh configuration flag.

samples/generators · high confidence

Fornax now requires the .NET 8 SDK to build and run, replacing previous .NET 6 and .NET 5 targets. The legacy Paket-based FAKE build scripts (build.fsx, build.sh, build.cmd) have been removed and replaced with a project-based FAKE build pipeline (Build.fs, build.fsproj) that uses .NET global tools. This change also updates the FAKE dependency to version 6.1.4 and relaxes the FSharp.Core requirement to version 6.0.7 or newer.

(repo-wide) · high confidence

The default Fornax template has been refactored to support paginated blog posts, allowing users to configure the number of posts per page via the global loader. The home page now splits posts into chunks and generates navigation links (Previous/Next) for multi-page browsing. Additionally, the layout has been improved for mobile devices, and the post generator now supports summarizing content using the \\<!--more--\>\ marker to display excerpts on the index page while showing full content on individual post pages.

src/Fornax.Template · high confidence

Added a new test project (Fornax.Core.UnitTests) with Expecto-based tests verifying the string representation of HTML elements and CSS properties. The tests cover standard and custom HTML elements with various combinations of properties (strings, floats, booleans) and children (including void elements like \<br/\> and \<img/\>), ensuring correct serialization for both simple and nested structures.

test · high confidence

The project has been upgraded from .NET Framework 4.5 to .NET 8, switching from the classic project format to the modern SDK-style format. This change introduces centralized package version management via Directory.Packages.props, removes the legacy Paket dependency files, and updates core dependencies such as FSharp.Core to version 8.0.100 and FAKE to 6.1.4. The main Fornax CLI tool is now configured as a packable .NET 8 executable with the command name 'fornax'.

(dependencies) · high confidence

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• First survey — no prior run to compare against. CAI 60.

• Code Health 92
• Architecture 100
• Maturity 51
• Readiness 52
• Security 76

• 234 commits — 209 feature/other, 25 fixes

• (root) — 95 commits
• src/Fornax — 71 commits
• src/Fornax.Template — 22 commits
• src/Fornax.Core — 13 commits
• .github/workflows — 4 commits
• (repo) — 3 commits
• .paket/Paket.Restore.targets — 3 commits
• samples/generators — 3 commits
• test/Fornax.Core.UnitTests — 3 commits
• samples/config.fsx — 2 commits
• samples/loaders — 2 commits
• samples/post — 2 commits
• samples/sample-generate.fsx — 2 commits
• .config/dotnet-tools.json — 1 commit
• logo/Fornax.png — 1 commit
• logo/logo.png — 1 commit
• samples/generator.fsx — 1 commit
• samples/js — 1 commit
• samples/post.md — 1 commit
• samples/posts — 1 commit

• fix: Fix #63: Support file with spaces in the name
• fix: Fix CLI arguments
• fix: Fix README header image (#13)
• fix: Fix .less generation
• fix: Fix Generator.evaluate
• fix: Fix bug in injectWebsocketCode (post generator)
• fix: Fix folder generation
• fix: Fix for a once generator running when not found
• fix: Fix restore for release.yml
• fix: Fix sample
• fix: Fix sample
• fix: Fix to avoid crash in waach mode when files are changing in .git repo.
• fix: Fix void elements
• fix: Fix watch mode
• fix: Minor readme grammatical fixes (#83)
• fix: Misc fixes (#80)
• fix: Post list fixes
• fix: Small fix to changelog
• fix: Small fix to model
• fix: Small fix to the model
• …and 214 more

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