Mown - Static website publishing at peace

My Own Website Now!

Purpose

Mown aims to be a sustainable and comfortable web content authoring tool:

• Simplest server-side setup (no scripts, no database)
• Easy to setup authoring environment (do not depend on developer environments or tools)
• Instant preview during content authoring
• Little to no configuration

Features

• Articles and standalone pages
• RSS feed
• Instant preview generated automatically when source files are modified
• Comment snippets support
• Open source (MIT)
• Binaries available (for now only Windows 64bits)

Demo video

Contributing

Issues, comments and external pull requests are welcome; even more if they fit the project purpose mentioned above!

Internals

Design goals

• C++/boost library
• Qt/Webkit UI
• YAML files
• simple template format
• auto generation of every configuration and template files

Build guide

Mown depends on the following libraries and tools:

• Qt 5.12.0
• Boost 1.57.0 or later
• CMake 2.8.11 or later
• yaml-cpp

Windows (MSVC 2017 x64)

Install requirements

• Install latest cmake
• Install QT 5.7 (msvc 15 2017 x64 binaries)
• Install Boost MSVC 14.1 2017 64bits windows pre-built binaries

Environment/CMake variables

• BOOST_ROOT to the boost dir (for instance C:\local\boost_1_69_0)
• CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH to the Qt build dir (for instance C:\Qt\5.12.0\msvc2017_64)

Build yaml-cpp

(in mown repository root)
$ git submodule update --init
$ cd dependencies\yaml-cpp
$ mkdir build && cd build
$ cmake -G "Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64" -DYAML_CPP_BUILD_TESTS=OFF -DYAML_CPP_BUILD_TOOLS=OFF -DYAML_CPP_BUILD_CONTRIB=OFF -DYAML_CPP_INSTALL=OFF ..
$ cmake --build . --config Debug
$ cmake --build . --config Release

Build Mown

$ (in mown repository root)
$ mkdir build && cd build
$ cmake -G "Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64" ..
$ cmake --build .